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The Pirates Next Door by Jonny Duddle (view source)
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|title=The Pirates Next Door
|sort=Pirates Next Door
|reviewer=Sue Magee
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=It's the pictures which make the book - you can pour over them for hours and still find something new the next time roundaround. Recommended.
|rating=4
|buy=Yes
|borrow=Yes
|pages=36
|publisher=Templar Publishing
|date=March 2012
|isbn=978-1848773929
|website=|videoaznuk=1848773927|amazonukaznus=<amazonuk>1848773927</amazonuk>|amazonuscover=<amazonus>1848773927</amazonus>
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'''Winner: [[Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2012]]
'''Longlisted for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal 2013'''
Matilda lives in the little seaside town of Dull-on-Sea where the average age is 67. The house next door has been empty since she was a baby and she ''longs'' for a family with a girl of her own age to move in but instead a family of pirates move into the decrepit old house - complete with their pirate ship, treasure chests, barrels of grog and Jim Lad who is in Matilda's class at school. The neighbours - well, the town - are not pleased, so what will the pirate family do to win them round? Meanwhile, Matilda is having a lot of fun.
I'd like to thank the lovely people at Riot Communications who came up with a review copy when all else had failed.
For more pirates , we can recommend [[The Three Little Pirates by Georgie Adams and Emily Bolam]] for the youngest wannabe bucaneersbuccaneers, [[The Monkey Pirates by Mark Skelton and Ben Redlich]] or [[The Pirates' Treasure (Tumtum and Nutmeg) by Emily Bearn]] for the emerging reader, or the ultimate pirate picture book - [[An A to Z of Pirates by Caroline Stills and Heath McKenzie]].
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