Archie and the Pirates
Marc Rosenthal, . . HarperCollins, $16.99 (40pp) ISBN 978-0-06-144164-6
The eponymous hero is a clever, courageous monkey who makes lemonade out of lemons (or the banana equivalent thereof) when he is marooned on a desert island. Archie quickly makes friends with his fellow animal inhabitants and then rallies them to fend off an invasion by a “rough and smelly” band of pirates, whose idea of cruel taunting is to stick out their tongues and grunt “HAR,” after capturing Archie's friend Beatrice, a tiger. With a retro design aesthetic and swashbuckling sense of adventure, Rosenthal (
Reviewed on: 10/26/2009
Genre: Children's
Library Binding - 40 pages - 978-0-06-144165-3
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