🐾 Pirate-cats, treasure hunts and full-colour comic adventure for kids aged ~6-10 (and younger kids when read by parents with all the voices!)

Meet Jack Scratch: pint-sized pirate-cat, fearless swashbuckler, and singer of highly questionable sea-shanties. Together with Cap’n Catnip (the world’s greatest mariner) and Uncle Silver he sets sail for the legendary Hiss-paniola, the treasure that changes everything…

Along the way there are curses, cutlasses, wild waves, grumpy sea-monsters, and MORE than one sneaky cat-villain who’s been plotting in the shadows.

This isn’t just a book:

• A beautiful A4 hard-cover with cloth spine and 52 pages of full-colour, lush illustrations by Craig Phillips (yes, the same Craig whose artwork has graced rock-posters and global publishers).

• A comic-style graphic novel flavour, bringing story time to life and pulling in reluctant readers (especially those who think “reading” is boring).

• Perfect for fans of cats, pirates, graphic adventure – and anyone who wants to ignite imagination and laughter in their young reader.

Why you should buy it now

• It’s Book One in a thrilling series – collecting this sets you up for the adventure ahead.
  

• Makes a brilliant gift for birthdays, library-additions, classroom sets or simply to turn the screen off and drift into a fun, visual mash-up of comics + story.

Parents, listen up
If your child is a reluctant reader, this book is your secret weapon. Large format, lots of visuals, fast-moving story and characters they’ll want to come back to again and again. Comics do build reading confidence and enjoyment.

If your child loves cats or pirates or (best of all) both, you’re going to look like hero parent.

About the creator
Craig Phillips, based by beautiful Lake Taupō in New Zealand, drew on childhood legend-telling, “pirate-cats” at breakfast table, and his professional illustrator background to bring this world to vivid life.