Five Minutes to Bed! A Ladybird Skullabones Island picture book

Five Minutes to Bed! A Ladybird Skullabones Island picture book

Summary

"But Captain, we're not tired yet!
We're terrors of the seven seas!
We're rough tough noisy pirates!
Just five more minutes, please!"

Captain Cutlass's crew aren't quite ready for bed yet. What jobs can he find to keep his trusty pirates busy? Why, there's washing to scrub and hats to stitch and cracks in the hull to seal with pitch!

With delightful rhyming text, humorous illustrations, and read-along audio narration, Five Minutes to Bed! will help your little darlings go to bed and stay there.

About the authors

Sharon Harmer (Illustrator)

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Richard Dungworth

Richard has written over forty books for children and began his writing career as an in-house author, working on non-fiction, first at Usborne Publishing, and later at Ladybird Books. Since going freelance, he has created original stories to support a wide range of exciting licensed properties such as Doctor Who; Wallace and Gromit; Transformers; MI High; Captain Scarlet and The Incredibles. Richard lives in Leicestershire with his wife and two young children. Richard's rather unfortunate surname comes from a village in South Yorkshire, where his ancestors lived. It means 'a dwelling with dried cow pats for roofing'. Lovely.
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