Jack at Sea

by Philippe Dupasquier

During the Napoleonic Wars, Jack stows away on a ship to which his friend McCloud has been brought by a press gang

Genres: Picture Books

32 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1986

About the author

Philippe Dupasquier is an author and illustrator of children’s books. He attended art school in Lyon, France, after which he became a freelance illustrator in London, England.

For his illustrations in Bill's New Frock, he received the Smarties Prize (1989) and the Carnegie Medal commendation (1989) from the British Library Association, and the Oak Tree Award (1990), from Nottinghamshire Libraries.

Reviews

[Su]

A delightful and thought provoking book for children and adults. We have been reading this book for about 5 years and still find it engaging at age 9. We have discussed the possibility of a series, but haven't been able to find anything that supports this theory. Even though the story both opens and closes as though we came into it midway, it appears that this is the only book.

[Sprinkles]

Really depressing for a children's book. It's depressing content come from it's realistic telling of how life was on a boat in ealier times.