Wigglesbottom Primary: The Pirate Cat

By Author / Illustrator

Pamela Butchart, Becka Moor

Genre

School Stories

Age range(s)

Publisher

Nosy Crow

ISBN

9781805131434

Format

Paperback / softback

Published

18-07-2024

Synopsis

Another hilarious take on school life from the brilliant Pamela Butchart - three stories of mayhem and chaos where pupils' imaginations run riot...

The strangest things happen at Wigglesbottom Primary! A cat decides to join year 2 on a school trip to the seaside and has a brilliant time - chasing seagulls, raiding picnics and sunbathing on the shore. But it's when it goes into the arcade that the trouble REALLY starts...

Perfect for newly-independent readers, these are more funny primary school stories from award-winning Pamela Butchart, brilliantly colour-illustrated by Becka Moor.

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Reviews

Jane

It's no wonder children love these books: they are so funny, so imaginative, so 'just right'. They may well know an Irfan or Sunita, a Joel Jack or Miss Riley... after all, aren't there similar characters in every school... the ones who see the unbelievable and come up with crazy but credible ideas, and adults who seem to have explanations for even the weirdest things?

A real pirate cat, a growth spurt that's out of control, ghost slime at the Hallowe'en disco: all so real, all capable of causing either immense excitement or considerable consternation. A book to get carried away with, to laugh out loud with, to share with friends, to recommend widely. Every library should have one, if not every KS1 classroom. It could be read aloud to a whole class, but smaller groups would benefit from being able to see close-up the fantastic illustrations.

Wigglesbottom Primary: The Pirate Cat, the latest in the Wigglesbottom Primary series, will ensure that Pamela Butchart (& illustrator Becka Moor) continue to be firm favourites with children ages 5+ and that, by ages 7+, those readers are ready for Baby Aliens Got My Teacher and more by the same author, Pamela Butchart.

112 pages / Reviewed by Jane Rew, school librarian