Shiver Me Letters (Paperback)

Those looking for an ""M is for Matey"" type of treatment will have to plunder elsewhere", as Sobel's (B Is for Bulldozer: A Construction ABC) alphabet does its playful swashbuckling in a slightly less traditional manner. True enough, Sobel's bossy pirate captain (depicted as an alligator wearing a rubber-ducky inner-tube around his waist) sets the seafaring adventure afloat when he roars quasi pirate-speak from the deck," "" `R's not enough./ We need other letters/ to make us tough.'/ `Let's sail far away/ to find ABC's.' "" A motley", if enthusiastic crew of yellow-toothed animal buccaneers rallies to his cry for a treasure hunt," chronicled in the jaunty rhyming story on the subsequent pages. ""The anchor went into an A!/ A B floated by on the crystal clear bay."" Young readers will find plenty of maritime and pirate-centric booty", including doubloons, hook, landlubber, yo-ho-ho-ho, and certainly X marking a special spot as they spy each letter printed in a bold red typeface. Cole's (Dinorella) rollicking, sweetly comic watercolors capture typically imagined details from a pirate band-deck swabbing, a tyrannical leader, walking the plank. And Sobel's action-filled story line gives the artist lots of leeway to be creative with other funny bits, too. Ahoy! A nifty concept book. Ages 2-5. (May) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved