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유쾌한 동물해적단의 선장인 악어는 선원들에게 소리쳤습니다(Roar). "R만으로는 충분치 않아 나머지 25개 알파벳을 모두 찾아오도록!" 선원들도 알파벳을 찾는 모험에 신이 났습니다.

해적선이 무인도에 도착했을 때, 닻(Anchor)을 내린 후, 작은 보트로 옮겨타고 만(Bay)으로 들어갔습니다. 선원들은 백사장에서 포탄(Cannonball)을 발견하고, 모래 속을 깊게 팠습니다(Dug).....

이런 방식으로 A부터 Z까지 알파벳 순으로 스토리가 이어지면서, 모든 알파벳을 결국을 찾게 되는 재미있는 글과 그림이 가득한 책입니다. 그런데 무인도에서 X, Y, Z는 어떻게 찾게 될까요?






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Paperback: 32 pages
ISBN-10: 0152066799
ISBN-13: 9780152066796
책 크기: 25.4 cm x 22.9 cm



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Book Description
The captain of this brave and bumbling pirate crew has ordered them to capture the entire alphabet--and they'll walk the plank if they're missing a single letter! Now these swashbuckling mateys are embarking on an alphabet adventure unlike any other, and they won't (ahem, can't) rest until they've found an A, a Z, and everything in between.
June Sobel's hilarious text and Henry Cole's adventurous animal pirates harmonize in an irresistible book for alphabet-learning, pirate-loving kids everywhere.


School Library Journal
These animal pirates decide that they need more than the letter R (R’s not enough./We need other letters/to help make us tough), so they set off to find the remaining 25. Led by a crocodile captain (with a hook, no less), the band of buccaneers search far and wide to complete their mission. Some letters are found near items that begin with that letter, e.g., an anchor, gold, or a parrot. Others are in situations that involve the letter in action–Q is questioned, U is underwater. Still others are described, as in the case of the nimble N. Some alphabet books struggle to incorporate X, but as any young pirate knows, X marks the spot on a treasure map. The rhyming text is more suited to reading aloud as it includes a number of words that would have beginning readers asking for assistance. The colorful cartoon illustrations encourage children to participate by finding the sought-after letters, which appear in bright red uppercase in each scene. This alphabet adventure is sure to capture audience attention at a pirate-themed story hour, and will be enjoyed by individual borrowers.


Kirkus Review
Joining the flotilla of volumes sailing along beneath the Jolly Roger, this alphabet takes a pirate crew with literary ambitions (of a sort) on a quest. “‘R,’ roared the captain. ‘R’s not enough. We need other letters to help make us tough. Let’s sail far away to find ABC’s. Bring me back D’s, E’s, F’s, and some G’s.’” Driven on by a crocodilian commander outfitted with both a hook and a rubber-ducky inner tube, a set of animal swabbies sail off to an island where, after Anchoring in a Bay, they proceed to gather a Cannonball, Doubloons and so on, capped by a cabinful of Z’s at weary day’s end. Just as Cole tucks easy-to-find letter forms into his cartoon scenes, Sobel artfully inserts multiple examples of each letter into her lines of verse for observant young readers to spot. Something of a sound-alike to Bill Martin Jr.’s classic Chicka Chicka Boom Boom (1989, illustrated by Lois Ehlert), this will have young tars and lubbers alike happily signing on for the voyage.


Publisher’s Weekly
Those looking for an “M is for Matey” type of treatment will have to plunder elsewhere, as Sobel’s (B Is for Bulldozer: A Construction ABC ) alphabet does its playful swashbuckling in a slightly less traditional manner. True enough, Sobel’s bossy pirate captain (depicted as an alligator wearing a rubber-ducky inner-tube around his waist) sets the seafaring adventure afloat when he roars quasi pirate-speak from the deck, “‘R’s not enough./ We need other letters/ to make us tough.’/ ‘Let’s sail far away/ to find ABC’s.'” A motley, if enthusiastic crew of yellow-toothed animal buccaneers rallies to his cry for a treasure hunt, chronicled in the jaunty rhyming story on the subsequent pages. “The anchor went into an A !/ A B floated by on the crystal clear bay.” Young readers will find plenty of maritime and pirate-centric booty, including doubloons, hook, landlubber, yo-ho-ho-ho, and certainly X marking a special spot as they spy each letter printed in a bold red typeface. Cole’s (Dinorella) rollicking, sweetly comic watercolors capture typically imagined details from a pirate band--deck swabbing, a tyrannical leader, walking the plank. And Sobel’s action-filled story line gives the artist lots of leeway to be creative with other funny bits, too. Ahoy! A nifty concept book.