Pirates: 3-D Scenes with Sounds (Sounds of the Past) - Tapa dura

Presents sound effects, textual explanations, and detailed pop-up illustrations of such scenes of pirate life as a ship getting ready to sail, an attack by Chinese pirates, and pirates feasting, burying treasure, and fighting the British Navy.

A children’s writer and editor with a wealth of experience, Rod Green began his career working on children’s magazines with D C Thomson in his home town of Dundee, Scotland. He has since worked for publishers including Puffin, HarperCollins and Carlton Books, for whom he wrote the bestseller Santa Claus: The Magical World of Father Christmas. He lives in Surrey with his wife and son.

Steve Read is a self-taught artist who started work as a mural designer. Over a twenty-year period he progressed to become a freelance illustrator working on high profile advertising campaigns. More recently Read has been working within the fantasy genre, illustrating fairytale and landscape illustrations, underwater scenes, dragons and wizards, pirates and unicorns.