The Gingerbread Pirates Gift Edition - Hardcover

Kladstrup, Kristin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 076366233X ISBN 13: 9780763662332

Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA), 2012

Synopsis

"Swashbuckling gusto and a poignant finish should make this a new favorite." — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

It’s Christmas Eve, and Jim and his mother have left pirate gingerbread men for Santa. Jim’s favorite is Captain Cookie, who carries a gingerbread cutlass and has a toothpick peg leg. Jim keeps him close by his bed. But late that night, when Jim is fast asleep, Captain Cookie step-taps away on a daring adventure to find his pirate crew and rescue them from that mysterious character he’s heard about: a cannibal named Santa Claus. This masterfully illustrated tale, sparkling with all the excitement of a pirate adventure, is a new holiday classic.

About this title

Review:

Swashbuckling gusto and a poignant finish should make this a new favorite.
--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Large in scale and dramatic in effect, watercolor-and-gouache paintings create believable settings, sometimes seen from unusual perspectives, and sympathetically portray the characters, especially the pirates, whose icing-sugar mouths and eyes are surprisingly expressive.
--Booklist

An exciting story and full-page, dramatically composed paintings depicting harrowing adventures with a mouse, a cat, and the crew imprisoned in a cookie jar make this a good holiday read-aloud.
--School Library Journal

Captain Cookie's quest to rescue his crew from their cookie-jar imprisonment is not without peril, and humorous obstacles abound...Tavares's vivid watercolor and gouache paintings dramatize Kladstrup's lively text with vigor in this imaginative adventure story.
--The Horn Book

Cookie's-eye-view illustrations and a story enlivened with dialogue make this boy's version of the nutcracker sparkle.
--Foreword

Kladstrup makes the most of the adventurous possibilities, while Tavares's sumptuous full-bleed spreads and spot illustrations play with a cookie's-eye perspective.
--Shelf Awareness

An adventurous, hilarious story that brims with the magic of Christmas...pure delight.
--Kendal Rautzhan's Books to Borrow, Books to Buy

An imaginative kid-pleaser.
--News Tribune

Red and green dominate Tavares' bold illustrations, making this one of the most festive
Christmas books.
--St. Paul Pioneer Press

About the Author:

Kristin Kladstrup is also the author of the middle-grade novel The Book of Story Beginnings. She lives near Boston, Massachusetts.

Matt Tavares is the illustrator of Lady Liberty by Doreen Rappaport; Jack and the Beanstalk, retold by E. Nesbit; Iron Hans by Stephen Mitchell; Over the River and Through the Wood; and ’Twas the Night Before Christmas. He is also the author-illustrator of There Goes Ted Williams, Henry Aaron’s Dream, Oliver’s Game, Mudball, and Zachary’s Ball. He lives in Ogunquit, Maine.

About this edition

• Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 076366233X
• ISBN 13: 9780763662332
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Tavares Matt