{"product_id":"pirate-stew-1","title":"Pirate Stew","description":"Review\n\nNeil Gaiman is the nearest thing children's books have to a rock star: if you enjoy fantasy, he is irresistible ― The Times\n\nSplendid ... A feast for the eyes and ears ― The i\n\nFeaturing a flying pirate ship, a delicious donut shop and a rollicking rhyme by Neil Gaiman (which is best read aloud for full pirate effect), Pirate Stew is a great book for storytime with brilliant illustration (featuring a mixed race family) by former Children's Laureate Chris Riddell ― BookTrust\n\nReaders may wish that Talk Like a Pirate Day lasted all year long ― Kirkus Reviews (starred review)\n\nA riotous rhyming picture book by a pair of ingenious book-aneers. What a witty feast of sing-song verse and visuals this is ... A buccaneering blast of a book that demands to be read aloud, acted out and treasured like ill-gotten gains! ― LoveReading4Kids\n\nThe talented dream team of Gaiman and Riddell have done it again. Fantastic rhyming story with the most fabulously intricate illustrations. I could look at them for hours. Perfect for reading out loud or for any little readers, piratical or otherwise ― NetGalley Reviewer\n\nGaiman's literary prowess and Riddell's genius illustrations come together again in a brilliant book, which is guaranteed to fly off bookshelves and library shelves around the world ― NetGalley Reviewer\n\nFans of Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell are going to love this. Funny and magical and bound to be a great story before bedtime ― NetGalley Reviewer\n\nHighly enjoyable ... the perfect ingredient for a raucous read-aloud. Riddell's predictably fabulous illustrations are ablaze with colour and detail ― Booklist\n\nA splendid, rollicking rhyme of a picture book guaranteed to delight young readers. The illustrations are just fabulous, packed with comic characters, detail and pirate fun ― Books for Keeps\n\nJoyful, rhyming, hilarious ... one of the very best adventures little ones could have with words and pictures on paper! ― Armadillo Weekly\n\nA slightly cautionary rhyming tale about what might happen if you hire a pirate as a babysitter [.] The detailed and colourful images refer to many fictional pirates, although here they are not villains, but a mutually supportive group who insist on paying their way ― Children's Books Ireland\n\nan anarchical rhyming romp that will keep you Yo Ho Ho-ing on every reading ... Mad and magnificent ― Daily Mail\n\nHurrah, a riotous joy of a rhyme from the brilliant Neil Gaiman. Hugely reminiscent of Dr Seuss ― Dandelion\n\nDive in, arm yourself and be ready for silliness, adventure, fun and wickedness (of course). Joyful, quirky, laugh-out-loud tongue-twistingly funny this book is the perfect gift to yourself or any young reader ― Armadillo\n\nFor a more boisterous offering, look no further than Pirate Stew ... In this rhyming tale, a crew of swashbuckling pirates make for unusual babysitters, leading to an evening of chaos, adventure, and a very strange stew, which the children are desperate to avoid ― A little bit of magic, The Scotsman\n\nPirate Stew is a very enjoyable book with very colourful pictures. The story line is funny with a twist at the end ― Toddle About\n\nProduct Description\n\nFrom the multi-award-winning Neil Gaiman comes the biggest picture book of the year: a joyfully riotous, brilliantly anarchic, deliciously rhyming adventure, with glorious piratical illustrations by Chris Riddell\n\n'Neil Gaiman is the nearest thing children's books have to a rock star: if you enjoy fantasy, he is irresistible' The Times\n\nMeet LONG JOHN McRON, SHIP'S COOK . . . and the most unusual babysitter you've ever seen.\n\nLong John has a whole crew of wild pirates in tow, and - for two intrepid children - he's about to transform a perfectly ordinary evening into a riotous adventure beneath a pirate moon. It's time to make some PIRATE STEW.\n\nPirate Stew! Pirate Stew!\nPirate Stew for me and you!\nPirate Stew, Pirate Stew\nEat it and you won't be blue\nYou can be a pirate too!\n\nMarvellously silly and gloriously entertaining, this t","brand":"Bloomsbury Children's Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40447161270357,"sku":"9781526614728N","price":395.74,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/5e8033eb-fc1d-4b15-a0fd-416ab779d52c.jpg?v=1670752592","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/products\/pirate-stew-1","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}