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Author Ardizzone, Edward, 1900-1979.

Title Ship's cook Ginger : another Tim story / by Edward Ardizzone
Published London : Bodley Head, 1977

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 MELB CRC  82P ARD-S  AVAILABLE
Description 48 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Contents As each day passed Tim grew paler and thinner and his parents became more and more worried. Tim was pining for the open sea. So Tim's father arranged for Captain McFee to take the whole family -- and Ginger, too -- for a voyage to the Northern Isles. But the pleasure trip became a more serious matter when Tim's parents were called home, leaving the boys alone with the crew. By a strange turn of fate, Ginger became the ship's cook -- although he knew nothing at all about cooking and made some dreadful mistakes -- and once again it was left to Tim to save them all from certain disaster
Summary Itching to go to sea, Tim and his friend Ginger are delighted to join the Claribel on a voyage, but when disaster strikes the boys have a terrible time, Tim on the bridge, and Ginger in the galley
Analysis Children's stories in English 1900- Texts
Notes For young children
Subject Children's stories.
Cooking on ships -- Juvenile fiction.
Seafaring life -- Juvenile fiction.
Genre/Form Action and adventure fiction.
Sea stories.
Fiction.
LC no. 77377390
ISBN 0333393619 (Macmillan)
0370300041
1856811328 (Little Greats)