A Pirate's Twelve Days of Christmas

On the first day of Christmas, a gift was sent to me: a parrot in a palm tree!Ahoy mateys—Christmas is coming, and even pirates celebrate the holiday! This follow-up to the hugely popularA Pirate's Night Before Christmas offers a witty reimagining of “The Twelve Days of Christmas”—with a sly buccaneer twist. A brave cabin boy receives marvelously mysterious gifts for each of the 12 days he is left alone to guard the pirate ship: 12 cannons blastin', 9 mermaids singin', 6 Jolly Rogers, and so on—but who are they from? With impeccable rhythm and a lively sense of fun, Philip Yates and Sebastia Serra create a delightful world all their own.

Now in a deluxe paperback with flaps!

Philip Yates lives in Austin, TX, and works in one of the branches of the Austin Public Library system. He is the coauthor, with Matt Rissinger, of several humor books for children, includingBiggest Joke Book in the World, Great Book of Zany Jokes, and World's Silliest Jokes, all published by Sterling. His first pirate picture book for Sterling wasA Pirate's Night Before Christmas, praised by Children’s Literature as “a treasure in every way.”

Sebastia Serra hails from Barcelona, Spain, where he studied Fine Arts at the Universitat de Barcelona. He is an award-winning illustrator whose work has appeared in magazines and on television. Sebastia has illustrated a number of picture books in Spain and in the US. His work has also been displayed in exhibitions all over the world, including the US, Italy, Japan, China, and Korea.