Ahoy, matey! Welcome aboard The Black Hound, an unruly ship with the fast-paced and adventurous black-and-white illustrated chapter book for ages 7+ about two children joining a pirate's crew!
‘Ahoy there! What scuttling sea rat gets aboard the Black Hound without my knowing?’
‘You OK, lad? Ya gone paler than a full moon.’
'He’d slit yer gizzard without so much as a second thought.'
‘Straight as a pirate’s hook,’ Watkins mutters under his breath.
Expect all the pirate lingo with this amazing and exciting trilogy of an unlikely band of PIRATES! These pirates are unlike any other: they find lost treasures and RETURN them to their rightful owners.
Meet Captain John Hamish Watkins and his pirate crew: Briggs the quartermaster, Fishbreath the cook, Master Hudson the ship's Bosun, the riggers Drudger, Snitch and Dedweard, and last (but not least) Red, the girl rigger who becomes Flynn's friend and ally on board. Ready to join the team?
Readers will love learning about what life as a pirate is like and what makes up a ship, but what they'll love most are the swashbuckling adventures our protagonists get up to, from uncovering Ancient Egyptian treasures to return to their museum to battling deadly ice pirates, outsmarting squabbling clans, and facing the scariest beast of all the Seven Seas, the monstrous, cat-like Mogdrod! They will even find themselves recovering the Countess of Bohemia's jewels and fighting off the great ghost of Captain Scarletbeard, the scariest pirate who ever lived!
Larger than life characters and a story with lots of twists and turns are lavishly illustrated with hilarious black and white drawings sure to entice new readers with the smallest of details. There's even a map, a picture gallery with all the characters and an annotated ship illustration. Perfect for the more visual readers!
Written by Derek Keilty, author of the Will Gallows series, and illustrated by the fantastic Mark Elvins, this is the perfect series for readers of Portia the Pirate Princess books,The Accidental Pirates books and Pirate Blunderbeard books! You may also want to take a look at our fantastic collection of the very best pirate books for kids!
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All the Flyntlock Bones books in order:
Book 1: The Sceptre of the Pharaohs (2020)
Book 2: The Eye of Mogdrod (2021)
Book 3: The Ghost of Scarletbeard (2022)
