Best Pirate [Hardcover]

Augusta Garrick has proven that her helpful and gentle-hearted ways don't make her a bad pirate. In fact, she is even a good pirate. But when her clumsiness destroys a treasure map and injures First Mate Scully, she knows she must learn to be even better.Eager to make things right, Augusta sets out alone for Crossbones Island. She may not have a map, but she is nimble and fearless! At least, she is trying to be fearless. But there are strange shadows on Crossbones Island, and the Tuna Lubbers' crew of fierce pirate cats is after the treasure, too. When she finds herself in a dangerous situation with one of the Tuna Lubbers, will Augusta manage to be the better pirate?* Bad Pirate sold 6,000 copies* Bad Pirate won the Rainforest of Reading Award* This book introduces an intriguing new setting: spooky Crossbones Island6,000-copy print run; Featured at ILA, ALA Annual, AASL, NCTE and NAEYC; Pitch to major review media including The New York Times Book Review, Booklist, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal; target marketing to parenting publications, review centers, influential bloggers, and major library system selectors; Talk Like a Pirate Day release; social media promotion to Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, & GoodreadsScolded for being clumsy and kindly instead of crafty and greedy, young pirate Augusta becomes determined to brave a scary treasure hunt alone. When she and a member of a rival crew both get in trouble, they disobey orders to work together and share the booty.

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Following the format she set forth in the book's two predecessors, Winters once again fills her text with piratical lingo while highlighting three adjectives (in this case, 'crafty,' 'nimble,' and 'fearless'), allowing her heroine to embody them in her own way. Augusta is proactive, takes charge, and even has a thing or two to say about generosity when the moment is right. Griffiths' illustrations are in fine form l“ä