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Summary
Summary
The incorrigible Colin McNaughton sneaks a baby aboard a pirate ship with hilarious results in this kid-pleasing saga of pseudo-sword-fighting, smelly diapers, and hide-and-seek on the high seas. Oooh-argh, ha-har!
KABOOM! Who could be a-disturbin' Captain Abdul's beauty sleep firin' cannons? No, it's not an attack on his raucous pirate ship, The Golden Behind. It's a special delivery - a Little Treasure, to be exact, sent courtesy of Mrs. Abdul, who's off on a pirating jaunt of her own. Now Captain Abdul and his hairy, scary mates are expected to babysit! Will this be the ruin of their "repootashun" and make them the laughingstock of the pirate world?
Author Notes
Colin McNaughton was born on May 1, 1951 in Britain. He is the writer and illustrator of over 70 children's books. He studied graphic design at the Central School of Art and Design in London. He then went on to earn his MA in illustration at the Royal College of Art which is when he published his firat book. His picture books have comic -strip techniques that make them unique.
McNaughton's books include the Preston Pig series: Suddenly!, Boo!, Clops!, Goal!, Hmm... and Shh (Don't Tell Mister Wolf!) all of which feature Preston Pig and his clever escapes from Mr Wolf. A TV series was later developed from these books. One of his notable books is, There's an Awful Lot of Weirdos in Our Neighbourhood, which is a collection of poetry written with Allan Ahlberg.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (4)
Publisher's Weekly Review
After Captain Abdul's Pirate School and Jolly Roger and the Pirates of Captain Abdul, the third paper-over-board tale starring the redheaded seaman is Captain Abdul's Little Treasure by Colin McNaughton. But when the pirate crew opens the treasure chest, the find riches of the human persuasion a baby. (May) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Horn Book Review
(Primary) Captain Abdul and his grungy band of ruffians (from Captain Abdul's Pirate School and Jolly Roger and the Pirates of Captain Abdul) are once again spiritedly molding young pirates of the future, this time when the captain's wife takes off for a girls' getaway on the high seas, leaving the couple's infant son to be looked after by Dad and crew. Not known for his hands-on parenting-""I DO NOT BABY-SIT! I've got my repootashun to think about""-the captain doesn't even know his son's name but decides to call him Little Treasure and divides the men into teams to take turns ""sooperavizin'"" the lad. Bawdy humor in the boisterous text and cartoon art-running along the lines of the inadvisability of a hook-handed pirate changing diapers-melds with sweet scenes of the unkempt outlaws relishing their new job. They play hide-and-seek, tell knock-knock jokes, and sing familiar nursery songs altered with pirate-themed lyrics. When Mom returns, she is so pleased with her husband's care of Little Treasure that she tells all her friends, and for their next outing, all the women entrust their treasures to the best band of daycare marauders around. (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.
Kirkus Review
Avast! Captain Abdul's ship, the Golden Behind, gains a diaper-clad new crewmember when Doris and the other pirate wives set out for a bit of pillaging on their own. The Captain is outraged--"What's the woman thinkin' of, dumpin' a ninfant wi' a bunch of fearsome pirates? It's hirrisponsibul, HIRRISPONSIBUL!"--but then comes around. Little Treasure (as he's dubbed) soon has Abdul and the rest of the scruffy crew wrapped around his chubby little finger, as they teach him pirate skills and sing him to sleep each night. McNaughton illustrates in his usual broad, busy cartoon style, outfitting everyone in appropriately piratical gear and giving Little Treasure a wooly orange shock of hair identical to the captain's. In the end, so pleased are the wives with how well Little Treasure's done that they drop off a full dozen tykes, transforming the Golden Behind, its figurehead newly clad in a Jolly Roger diaper, into a permanent nursery. A cautionary tale if ever there was one. (CD) (Picture book. 7-9) Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
K-Gr. 3. Pirates are irresistible, and in McNaughton's third Captain Abdul adventure, they're particularly wonderful. When Captain Abdul's disgruntled wife leaves a treasure chest on board The Golden Behind,0 the crew is shocked to find Abdul's little son, the "treasure" of the title, hidden inside. With Abdul "sooperavizin'," babysitting quickly replaces the crew's more typical activities, and pretty soon the "hairy and scary" pirates warm to their task. They laugh at each of Little Treasure's antics, especially when he mispronounces dinner ("Swossages!"), and miss him mightily when he is gone, but everyone cheers up when all the pirate wives send their babies as replacements. The watercolor-and-ink pictures are scrumptious, all eye patches and wild hair, and there's lots of amusing, vernacular pirate talk ("Ooh-aargh, ye swabs!") to enliven read-alouds. Flourishes such as word-balloons, varied typefaces, and parodies of sea shanties and nursery rhymes add to the gleeful chaos. Pair this with Matthew McElligott's Blackbeard and the Birthday Suit0 (2006). --GraceAnne DeCandido Copyright 2006 Booklist