Pirates Mixed Up Voyage Audio [Audio Cassette]

Margaret Mahy (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1996

Captain Lionel Wafer and his fellow pirates Toad, Brace-and-Bit and Winkle set off in a converted teashop of a ship renamed "The Sinful Sausage". Excitement mounts as the Captain soon forms a plan to kidnap a famous inventor, but they land on the wrong island and then their troubles begin.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

PW applauded this "combination of goofy, good-natured humor, cartoony characters and a convoluted mystery." Ages 10-14.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From School Library Journal

Grade 4-6-- A pi ece de r esistance by an orchestrator of breathlessly nonstop nonsense, farrago, and farce. Returning to the great city of Hookywalker, setting of The Blood and Thunder Adventure on Hurricane Peak (McElderry, 1989), readers meet young Lionel Wafer. Alas for Lionel; he is dissatisfied with living in rule-and-regulation-ridden real life. In his heart he dreams of being a pirate. So do all of the other people who work with him at his retired uncle's tea shop. A great believer in free will, he cuts the cable that binds the tea shop/ship to a wharf, rechristens the craft the Sinful Sausage and, accompanied by a delightfully dysfunctional crew, sets sail in search of fortune and adventure. This band of bumptious buccaneers finds misfortune, muddle, and misadventure, much of it deriving from the fact that none of them can read. However, they soon repair to Dr. Silkweed's Academy, located between a supermarket and a "Rent-a-Librarian" business. To share more will be to spoil readers' pleasure in unraveling a fiendishly convoluted plot, chockablock with mistaken identity, riotous incident, and madcap merriment. Comic devices are crowded aboard: jokes, one-liners, endless alliteration, puns, hyperbole, funny names, slapstick, and so forth. With Mahy at the helm, the Sinful Sausage skims across the wildest waves, driven by the hurricane gale of her readers' unremitting laughter. --Michael Cart, formerly at Beverly Hills Public Library
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Cavalcade (September 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0745154999
• ISBN-13: 978-0745154992
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,977,317 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Margaret Mahy lives in New Zealand and is internationally acknowledged as one of the most outstanding children's writers today. She is the author of more than two hundred books for children of all ages, two of which have received England's Carnegie Medal and others of which have garnered numerous citations from the American Library Association. She is also the recipient of An Order of New Zealand, the highest honor a citizen can receive. In 2006 she received the Hans Christian Andersen award for her contributions to international children's literature.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Great Review, March 30, 2000

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Dave (San Diego,CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Pirates' Mixed-up Voyage (Paperback)

The book that Mahy wrote was one of the funniest books that I have ever read. This book was full of many laughs and suprises. It is about these middle age men who wor very hard in a teashop and they are very tired of working. They want to do something they always wanted to do and that was to go on a voyage as pirates. So one day they just dropped eveything an set off to the thousand islands hoping to have fun. Before they set off the harmless bunch of pirates kidnapped a famous inventor to help seach for one of thoughs action filled adventures that pirates always have. If you are trying to find a funny book then this is the book for you.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book will keep you laughing!, January 2, 1998

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Cat Biddle ([e-mail]) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Pirates' Mixed-up Voyage (Paperback)

The Mixed Up Pirate's Voyage is full of surprises that will delight you and keep you laughing. This book is about an uneducated bunch of teashop owners that dream of being pirates. One day, on an impulse, they break free of the bonds of boring, everyday life and set out on the open sea. This mismatched bunch of adventurous beverage sellers decide to kidnap the famous inventor, Humbert Cashcash, who lives in the thousand islands(on island 999, to be exact) The bumbling would-be-pirates have one misadventure after another as Mahy weaves a tale of mystery, hilarity, mixed identities and a giant jigsaw puzzle together to form a story that won't be soon forgotten.

4.0 out of 5 stars a good charming mystery, September 20, 2000

A Kid's Review

This review is from: The Pirates' Mixed-Up Voyage: Dark Doings in the Thousand Islands (Hardcover)

This book was a good charming mystery. It had just the right amounts of twists and turns to make it a good, curl up by the fire book. The pirates give this book, just the right amount of jazz and the thousand islands in this book, gave it just the right touch of fantasy. Overall I'd rate it 4 stars!