Two children are left alone with a piratical babysitter in this swashbuckling story of stew and adventure! When there's nothing for dinner in the fridge, Long John McRon and his friends make a batch of pirate stew. From onions and carrots to mermaids tears and wooden planks, this stew has a bit of everything! But watch out: eat it and you'll become a pirate too!
This picture book is a treat from beginning to end! My children loved it from its very first reading and we've enjoyed it many times since then. The refrain is easy to remember and is something we've all started repeating.
The stew's ingredients are really fun to read and prompted lots of discussion and shock in our house. My three year old has since checked that I'm definitely serving him soup and not pirate stew at dinner time!
Chris Riddell's art work is bright and full of brilliant, larger than life characters. Long John McRon bursts from the page and the joyful pirate crew will stay with readers long after they've finished reading.
This is a babysitting experience like no other. Be careful what you eat!
My daughter won a copy of Pirate Stew to review on Toppsta.
Pirate Stew is written by Neil Gaiman and illustrated by Christ Riddell
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