Frank Lampard’s Frankie vs the Pirate Pillagers is a football adventure for 6 year olds in which one lucky kick sends a boy, two friends and a dog onto a pirate ship.<\/p>\n
Frankie loves football more than anything. On the last day of the fair he spends the last of his pocket money at a funny little stall and wins a scuffed, half-flat ball from a man with caterpillar eyebrows.<\/p>\n
In the park, he volleys it past his friend Charlie into a climbing frame shaped like a ship. The ball vanishes. A swirl of colours appears where the goal was. And Frankie, Charlie, Louise and Max the dog go whooshing down a rainbow slide.<\/p>\n
They land on the deck of a real pirate ship. There’s a captain with a wooden leg, an enormous pirate with a hook, a girl called Scarlet and a parrot who plays in goal. Max can suddenly talk. And the losing team gets left behind on a desert island!<\/p>\n
The match is brilliant fun. The goal is the crow’s nest, a cannon fires to start each game, and at one point a crowd of sharks passes the ball about. Who wouldn’t want to see that?<\/p>\n
The pirates cheat, of course. They shove, they call a hook a hand and they tip the whole ship sideways. Frankie’s answer is to play fair and play as a team (with a little help from a well-aimed dog biscuit).<\/p>\n
Charlie is a great sidekick. He never takes off his goalie gloves and his motto is “Always ready”, which everybody has heard a gazillion times. Louise chips in a lovely goal of her own.<\/p>\n
It’s short and it moves fast, with lots of action and nothing too scary. It’s the first of the Frankie adventures, and it ends with a clue that the fantasy league hasn’t finished with them yet.<\/p>\n
One small thing to know. This is the American edition, so the game is called “soccer”, Frankie’s mum is “Mom” and money comes in cents. Most children won’t mind a bit, but a keen young football fan might have something to say about it!<\/p>\n
If they’re after another football-mad boy who has been using the family dog as a goalkeeper, try Calum’s New Team. Calum has just moved town, his new garden is far too small and his first kickabout at school has to be played in clunky school shoes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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