Half-Pint Pete The Pirate

by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen, Geraldo Valério (Illustrator)

Overview

Warm up your pirate voice for this energetic treasure hunt

Half-Pint Pete the Pirate sailed half the seven seas, but with only half of a treasure map, he's never found what he's looking for. Until the day he meets Belle - a pirate with half a map of her own. At first, Pete is eager to steal Belle's share, but half a team isn't enough to find the treasure, and Pete soon realizes that working together is much more fun!

Lively verse and bright illustrations make this highseas adventure fun for seafarers and landlubbers alike!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780399251733
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	01/19/2012
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 10.20(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	3 - 5 Years

About the Author

Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen (www.sudipta.com) is the author of several picture books, as well as a number of nonfiction books for young readers. She lives in South Orange, New Jersey.

Geraldo Valério (www.geraldovalerio.com) has illustrated picture books in Brazil, Portugal, Canada and the United States. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Editorial Reviews

PreS-Gr 2—Half-Pint Pete sails half the seven seas with half a treasure map…you get the idea. He and his crew meet Half-Baked Belle and her lady pirates, who happen to have the other half of the map. Pete agrees to work with her, planning all the while to grab the treasure and make her walk the plank, but then, inexplicably, he falls in love with her. Valério's acrylic illustrations glow with color and whimsy, lending a much-needed spark to the thin premise and rhyming text.—Kathleen Kelly MacMillan, Carroll County Public Library, MD

School Library Journal

Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of zzzzzz. Half-Pint Pete sails the Seven Seas in search of treasure. Trouble is, Pete only has half a map to his name. When he comes in contact with the equally piratical Half-Baked Belle, a lass in possession of the map's missing parts, the two decide to team up and find the treasure together. Pete's plan to do away with Belle after the gold is uncovered flies out the window when the mission ends successfully and Pete discovers that the two of them make a perfect pair. Bardhan-Quallen presents a perfunctory, if well-scanned, series of alternating rhymes. Children with either a love or a fear of grungy pirates will find that this uniformly cheery, peg-legged crew are a far cry from the murderous plunderers of lore. The art is of a bit more interest. Brazilian illustrator Valério takes care to hide sly details in his colorful, preschool-friendly acrylics (though one wonders why precisely Valério absolutely had to make Pirate Belle so very pink, right down to her rose-colored eye patch). There are many pirate books out there that would best this one in terms of writing, art and general lawless glee, but this meets all the general requirements of an innocuous pirate tale for younger children. Serviceable and forgettable. (Picture book. 3-5)

Kirkus Reviews

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