Synopsis

of

Alfred and the Pirates

This is a book for both boys and girls, aged, we think, between about 9 and about 14.  Mind you, older children - not to mention their parents - have also read it. And enjoyed it.  So we think that this is a book that might find a place on any family bookshelf  where good stories with pictures are kept.

ALFRED Appletree is fourteen years old.  While writing a history project for school about what seagoing pirates were really like he begins to experience overpowering dreams about the horrors of life on a pirate ship.  Before he knows it, the pirates take over his own life.  Alfred feels he is going mad.  There is no-one he can tell. And no-one who would believe what he had to say.  As the story winds on its way Alfred faces the bleakest future.  Could the help of a history professor and his friend Josephine Jellicoe be enough for him to be escape their terrifying clutches?

`Thirty pieces of silver, even allowing for inflation, is just not enough for this thrilling adventure` Colin Bateman

Alfred and the Pirates
By Irving Finkel, illustrated by Emily Donegan
ISBN 1904982107
Hardcover, 148pp, 93 line drawings
Price £9.99