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Suitably rollicking verse describes the travails of a crew of pirates whose boat has sprung a leak. Desperately they try to plug it as a shark draws ever nearer, the doomful refrain repeating with each spread: it's way-hey-ho and down we go! Each page turn reveals a tableau that opens easily to give readers a three-dimensional look at each phase of the ship's sinking. The penultimate spread features a toothy shark gobbling the various items the pirates have thrown into the breach - Now, would he eat them, too? The subtitle gives readers a hint. Between the rhyme and the ease of opening, this should prove popular with piratically minded preschoolers. (Pop-up/picture book. 3-6) (Kirkus Reviews)

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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.

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