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The Castaway Pirates

A Pop-Up Tale of Bad Luck, Sharp Teeth, and Stinky Toes Story and pop-ups by Ray Marshall
Illustrated by Wilson Swain

10 x 8 in; 24 pp ; full-color throughout, ages 3 and up
Hardcover
Published in April, 2008
ISBN 0811859231
ISBN13 9780811859233

$19.99  

The Castaway Pirates -- In this pop-up pirate adventure, five pirates try to avoid being eaten by a shark when their ship springs a leak. They try to plug the hole with everything from the captain's coat to his rope, but in the end it's their smelly feet that turn the shark away. Each spread features a colorful, intricate pop-up designed by a master paper engineer, and the pop-ups grow more elaborate with each turn of the page.

Ray Marshall began his paper-engineering career in 1980, and in 1985 he won England's Smarties Prize for Children's Books Award for Watch It Work: The Car. He lives with his wife and two daughters in San Francisco. The Castaway Pirates is his twenty-fifth book and the first one he has written.

Wilson Swain lives in Glendale, California. This is his first book.