White Ravens’98/Greece/65866
Chatzedake, Tonia (text)
Andrikopulos, Nikolas (illus.)
Ho peirates me ta alliotika matia
(The pirate with different eyes) 
Athena: Hellenika Grammata, 1997. [28pp]
ISBN 960-344-348-4
Reading - Writing - Pirate - Book
One of the proudest treasures of the quite likeable pirate Mauroleon is a
large collection of books. One day he shows a letter in a bottle to his
girlfriend, the mermaid, and wants her to read it to him. After he confesses
that he cannot read at all, she agrees to teach him how to read and write.
At the end of his strenous but ultimately successful schooling, he is even
able to laugh at the spelling errors in his bottle post, and he takes the
books 
on all his travels from now on. The text is filled with verbal jokes, enhanced
by the excellent illustrations of the well-known illustrator, Nikolas
Andrikopulos. (4+)

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