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Chris Owen
Hairy Mole's Adventures on the High Seas
Ransom Publishing (94 pages) 9781841675633
Pirates are perennial favourites and this colourfully illustrated storybook is spot on. It is the second of a series which is very funny indeed and has clever use of variations, like curving wiggles, in the text placing to emphasise parts of the tale. There's a mixed cast of characters with a captain who has none of the usual bravado and a crew of Belch, Pickle, Crevice and Pitt, the cricket-bat-legged Mr Bogey and Tiny Guff. The events involve an Italian mob of pirates with exotic birds as headgear. There really is a lot of fun in this short but very entertaining story.