Space Pirates and the Monster of the Malswamp Cave
By Scoular Anderson
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Online price: £11.99
This title is currently availableHardback, 32pp Published: 1st April 2007 Category: Picture storybooks, Puzzle books (Children's/YA), Educational: Geography Interest age, years: From 5 To 8 Key Stage:  |
A very funny book and a challenge to work out, but following IDA's instructions through these wonderfully detailed, inventive and panoramic pages, can be really satisfying. - Carousel
Certainly worth its place in a primary school library. - School Librarian
These Space Pirates are treasure hunting but have to avoid the fate of becoming breakfast for the Monster not to mention the sly trickery of Silverine Slyce and her mob. It is difficult to describe this book in a few words but it’s very much in the Where’s Wally? mould. It is in picture-book format with each double page in three parts. One panel has instructions to help solve the puzzle, one has a main illustration with jigsawtype pieces hidden in it, and in the third the story is told in picture-strip style. The reader, or participant,needs to solve the puzzles, avoiding all the dangers and traps, to guide our hero Pirates ever onwards. The situations themselves are imaginative and suitably scary; for those whose mindset is attracted to such problem-solving it is totally absorbing
- Boys into Books 5-11 Riveting Reads
Pirate treasure hunters Captain Tosca, Needlespune, Dogzboddi and Coleslaw have returned but this time the treasure is guarded by the dreaded monster of Malswomp who will think nothing of gobbling up the crew of the Sleepy Sheep for breakfast! There is only one way past the monster and a clue has been hidden on jigsaw pieces hidden all over the planet. The pirates must identify the correct docking pod, read a metro map, and navigate their way around the dark and dangerous sewers. But is that Silverina Slyce and her band of Spaceway Men lurking around every turn? With rickety walkways, weird and wonderful creatures and all sorts of different areas to explore, map reading has never been so much fun.
32 pages
