Wigglesbottom Primary: The Pirate Cat

FROM THE WINNER OF THE BLUE PETER BEST STORY AWARD

THERE’S LOADS MORE MAYHEM IN

WELCOME TO

HANA

MISS RILEY

JAYDEN IRFAN

LAUREN

EVIE

MILES MEGAN

SUSIE

MR HARRIS

ROZ SUNITA GAVIN

ANNE-MARIE JOEL

BOBBY

THEO

First published in the UK in 2024 by Nosy Crow Ltd Wheat Wharf, 27a Shad Thames, London, SE1 2XZ, UK Nosy Crow Eireann Ltd 44 Orchard Grove, Kenmare, Co Kerry, V93 FY22, Ireland www.nosycrow.com ISBN: 978 1 80513 143 4 Nosy Crow and associated logos are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Nosy Crow Ltd Text copyright © Pamela Butchart, 2024 Cover and inside illustrations © Becka Moor, 2024 The right of Pamela Butchart and Becka Moor to be identified as the author and illustrator respectively has been asserted.

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For my beautiful Carlos.

Love you forever my angel x x P. B.

One day, our teacher said that we were going on a SCHOOL TRIP to the BEACH.

We all CHEERED because we couldn’t wait to go

PADDLING and have a BEACH PICNIC and make SANDCASTLES.

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And Joel Jack said that he was going to bring his

GIANT INFLATABLE

PINEAPPLE

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But that’s when Miss Riley said that we weren’t going paddling OR building sandcastles.

And also that the giant inflatable pineapple didn’t sound very safe.

We all STARED at each other. Because we didn’t know what else you could do at the beach if you weren’t doing any of those things!

Miss Riley handed us all BRIGHT BLUE VESTS and said that we were taking part in a

BEACH CLEAN UP PROJECT. 6

We all GASPED and looked at each other because cleaning up the beach sounded BORING. But then Miss Riley said that our class had been chosen by the council and that if we did a really good job, our school would get a BIG PRIZE. Everyone wanted to help clean up the beach when Miss Riley said that because we all LOVE prizes (especially BIG ONES!).

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When we got to the beach, we all put on our BLUE VESTS and Miss Riley gave us all STICKS with GRABBER BITS at the end so we could pick up the rubbish without touching it.

Everyone LOVED using the GRABBER STICKS! We were only supposed to use them to pick up rubbish but then Joel Jack got a bit CARRIED AWAY and started grabbing people’s FEET and ARMS with his stick. And that’s when Miss Riley took Joel’s grabber away and said that he was going to be in charge of the BIN BAG instead.

And that’s when I saw the CAT.

It was black and white and it was CARRYING a bag of CRISPS in its

MOUTH! I GASPED because I’d never seen a cat at the beach before (and I’d DEFINITELY never seen one carrying a bag of crisps!).

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The cat turned and

STARED at me and that’s when I noticed it only had ONE EYE.