Books with title The Pirates' Picnic

This simple picture book with a familiar theme, looks at the different thigns that a family take on a picnic; the rug, the basket, the sandwiches, the cakes and the drinks. The scene is set for a perfect picnic, until the wasps arrive!• Pink A/Band 1A books offer emergent readers very simple text supported by illustrations.• Text type - A story with a predictable structure and patterned language• A labelled illustration on pages 14 and 15 gives children the chance to recount and discuss the story.• This story is paired with an information book with a similar theme: Minibeasts by Siobhan Hardy.• This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery

*This book is Annotated (It contains a biography of the Author).* A contemporary of Charles Dickens, Captain Frederick Marryat was an officer in the Royal British Navy who, also a novelist, certainly followed the old line about writing what you know. The result is an accessible, deeply immersive, high-seas adventure full of chases, battles, baddies getting their comeuppance, the proven loyalty of friends, romance, and reunions. Fair warning that this is a novel of its time, using slurs against and references to captive slaves out of Africa we would not tolerate today.