The Pirates' Mixed-up Voyage
by Margaret Mahy
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Captain Wafer and the crew of the Sinful Sausage set sail for the Thousand Islands with a plot to kidnap a famous inventor, only to be thwarted by a witch, a firedrake, and the dastardly Dr. Silkweed.Tags
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Most people writing a pirate story for children would be happy to come up with a pirate ship name as awesomely cool as The Sinful Sausage, but Margaret Mahy's just getting started. The Sinful Sausage, it transpires, was until very recently Ye Olde Pyratte Tea Shoppe - she's still got tables and sunshades bolted to her deck - and that's even before we get to her crew...
I first read this charming story when I was at school, and finding a copy of the same edition for 40p in a secondhand bookshop on my 31st birthday, I had to get it. It's just as delightful as I remembered - a 160-page romp full of pirates, orphans, witches, dragons, inventors, detectives and balloons. Oh, and pudding. Lots and lots of pudding.
I first read this charming story when I was at school, and finding a copy of the same edition for 40p in a secondhand bookshop on my 31st birthday, I had to get it. It's just as delightful as I remembered - a 160-page romp full of pirates, orphans, witches, dragons, inventors, detectives and balloons. Oh, and pudding. Lots and lots of pudding.
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Margaret Mahy was born on March 21, 1936 in Whakatane, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. She received a B.A. degree from the University of New Zealand. She worked as a nurse, an assistant librarian, and a children's librarian in England and New Zealand. Her first book, A Lion in the Meadow, was published in 1969. She became a full-time author in 1980. show more During her lifetime, she wrote more than 120 children's books including The Haunting, The Changeover, Memory, The Seven Chinese Brothers, The Man Whose Mother Was a Pirate and A Summery Saturday Morning. She won the Esther Glen Award five times, the Carnegie Medal of the British Library Association three times, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, Hans Christian Andersen Award, and in 1999, she won the New Zealand Post Children's Book Award in two categories, Picture Book and Supreme Award. She died after a brief illness on July 23, 2012 at the age of 76. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- 1983
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