Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor
10 best books like Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor (Mervyn Peake): Puck of Pook's Hill, Pirates of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the 17th-Century Mediterranean, Old Black Witch!, The Jolly Pocket Postman, The Cat's Quizzer, Rootabaga Stories, Wild Animals of the North, Stopping for a Spell, Doré's Illustrations for Don Quixote, Grandpa's Ghost Stories: Story and Pictures
I read this because it was available free on Kindle (now I am on a "Kindle"-ing spree).
This book carries with it a childhood memory for me. I used to buy comics from the Higginbothams' bookstall in the railway station (they still have stalls all over railway stations in South India, but carry...
Pirates of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the 17th-Century Mediterranean
| Author | Adrian Tinniswood |
| ISBN | 0224085263 |
Pirates of Barbary is an extraordinary record of the European renegades and Islamic sea-rovers who terrorised the Mediterranean and beyond throughout the seventeenth century. From the coast of Southern Europe to Morocco and the Ottoman states of Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli, Christian and Muslim...
| Author | Wende Devlin |
| ISBN | 0689716362 |
Before there was Cranberryport (I love these books) there was the Old witch books. There are 3 in all. I find I love these too. I love the whimsy and mood that Wende brings to her stories. The publisher wraps sentences across a page turn or page to page and this is a pet peeve of mine. I hate this practice in children’s...
| Author | Janet Ahlberg |
| ISBN | 0316602027 |
I love this book!
I cannot believe I have not read this before! It’s a brilliant idea to follow the Jolly Postman on his rounds. The authors have cleverly interwoven the stories of Jack & The Beanstalk, Alice in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz. I love the little extras throughout the book....
| Author | Dr. Seuss |
| ISBN | 0001716123 |
Are you smarter than Ziggy and Zizzy Zozzfozzel? Get quizzed by the Cat in the Hat in this classic Beginner Book by Dr. Seuss! Do fish sleep with one eye open? What do they call one-eyed eyeglasses? Are snails faster than turtles? How many will you get right? (The Zozzfozzels got them ALL wrong!) Featuring...
Welcome to Rootabaga Country--where the railroad tracks go from straight to zigzag, where the pigs wear bibs, and where the Village of Cream Puffs floats in the wind. You'll meet baby balloon pickers, flummywisters, corn fairies, and blue foxes--and if you're not careful, you may never find your way...
| Author | Dieter Braun |
| ISBN | 1909263966 |
The first in a series of illustrated books covering animals of the world, North: Animals of the Wild features Dieter Braun’s beautiful drawings of northern animals accompanied by fun facts and clever descriptions that children will love!
From the polar bears of the Arctic to the North American...
| Author | Diana Wynne Jones |
| ISBN | 0007130406 |
How do you get rid of unwelcome visitors? Three stories which show that magic might be the answer, but you should always be careful about what you wish for! The Four Grannies When Erg and Emily's parents go away, they arrange for Granny to come and look after them. Unfortunately, they forget to say which...
| Author | Gustave Doré |
| ISBN | 0486243001 |
"His Don Quixote … from its first to its last page [is] a marvel of imagination, poetry, sentiment, and sarcasm. . . . People still speak of it only as 'Doré's Don Quixote'." — Life and Reminiscences of Gustave Doré
Doré himself had something of Quixote's chivalry and spent an arduous life...
Grandpa's Ghost Stories: Story and Pictures
| Author | James Flora |
| ISBN | 0689501129 |
Sitting on Grandpa's lap in the middle of a thunderstorm and listening to weird stories about what happened to him as a boy is not quite as cozy as it sounds. Skeletons in sacks; horrible witches; huge, scary, furry spiders with big, squishy mouths; hideous ghosts and hungry werewolves haunted Grandpa...
| Author | Derek Raymond |
| ISBN | 1852427981 |
This, the third novel in the Factory Series, sees Raymond's nameless detective leave London for a remote village called Thornhill, where he's meant to be looking into the disappearance of a local doctor's wife. How The Dead Live is a haunting, fantastical novel, with a hellish country house at its centre;...
| Author | James Thurber |
| ISBN | 0156962640 |
In this book, Arthurian legend blends with Lewis Carroll or perhaps Edward Lear. This has all the elements of the quintessential fairy tale (magical lands, three brothers vying to see who will be first to fulfill their quest, an enchanted lady, knights, dwarfs, etc.). And yet there is something whimsical,...
| Author | Stewart Cowley |
| ISBN | 0890092117 |
In middle school, I used to stare at this book for hours on end, imagining that distant future. Let's put this in context: Star Wars was one movie, Cylons were chrome-plated clods, and Space Invaders vied with Astroids for the title of 'Best Video Game.' Can't remember a thing about the text, but the pictures...
| Author | William Steig |
| ISBN | 0879235268 |
Wow! I must admit that I did not like reading this before bed to the kids. It’s an unsettling book and it stressed me out. The colors are vivid and it’s artistic, but the story is repulsive. It does give us a good and hopeful ending, but I don’t know that it outweighs how horrible the story is.
The...
In the Town All Year 'Round: (Illustrated Classics for Kids, Illustrated Kids Books, Early Readers Book)
| Author | Rotraut Susanne Berner |
"In the Town All Year 'Round" was originally published in Germany by Gerstenberg Verlag in 2003. In 2008 it was translated from German to English and published by Rotraut Susanne Berner. This book for the most part is wordless except for the page before each season, this page explains a little bit about...
| Author | Alice Thomas Ellis |
| ISBN | 1888173408 |
Imagine Rumpelstiltskin, Snow White, and Morgan Le Fey folded into one story and you'll have some idea of Alice Thomas Ellis's quirky novel, Fairy Tale. Set in the wooded hills and remote valleys of Wales, Ellis's modern-day romance follows the fortunes of young Eloise and her paramour, Simon, as they...
Conan: The Treasure of Tranicos
| Author | Robert E. Howard |
| ISBN | 0441822452 |
CONAN in all his glory:
Amid the treachery of pirates, the intrigue of a doomed count, the fury of savage Picts, the flashing eyes and flowing hair of beautiful women, fierce swordplay and the deadly vengeance of a black magician, the greatest her Hyboria has ever known picks his way like a clever...
The Hobbit, Mr Baggins and the Return to Bag-End: Boxed Set
| Author | J.R.R. Tolkien |
| ISBN | 0618964401 |
John D. Rateliff’s The History of the Hobbit is a handsome three-volume slip-cased set of hard covers. The first two volumes are the actual History of the Hobbit, in the form of Part One: Mr Baggins, and Part Two: Return to Bag-End. The third volume in the set is Tolkien’s published version of The Hobbit,...
| Author | Ruth Plumly Thompson |
| ISBN | 0345315898 |
In which the winsome Hungry Tiger is whisked away to the Kingdom of Rashin an attempt to satisfy his appetite. Little Betsy Bobbin and the perky Vegetable Man join him an young Prince Reddy in a search for the three magic Rash Rubies.
They travel through the Gnome Kingdom, whereupon the Tiger...
A Halloween Treat & Edward Gorey’s Ghosts
In A Halloween Treat, kids and cats go trick or treating, and gather loot that might be tricks—or perhaps the best treat imaginable: their very own monsters. A short vignette, published in book form for the very first time, it will be an undiscovered delight for Gorey fanatics. Turn the book over to...
Barlowe's Guide to Fantasy: Great Heroes and Bizarre Beings from Imaginative Literature
| Author | Wayne Barlowe |
| ISBN | 0061052388 |
Until now, many of the greatest creatures and characters from fantasy and horror have been seen only in the minds of their creators--and their readers. At last these bizarre and beautiful beings have been brought magnificently to life by acclaimed artist Wayne Douglas Barlow, who has often been called...
The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 13: 1975-1976
| Author | Charles M. Schulz |
| ISBN | 1606993453 |
That’s right! With this volume, The Complete Peanuts reaches the halfway point of Charles M. Schulz’s astounding half-century run on the greatest comic strip of all time.These years are especially fecund in terms of new canine characters, as Snoopy is joined by his wandering brother Spike
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