THE GREAT PIRATICAL RUMBUSTIFICATION & THE LIBRARIAN AND THE ROBBERS

In the first of two extravagant fantasies by the acknowledged mistress of extravagant fantasy, three wide-eyed lads are overjoyed to discover that the Mother Goose Babysitting Agency has sent a pirate by mistake. In the second, a lovely librarian converts a would-be kidnapper to a . . .well. . . more orderly occupation. Reader Jarvis manages to portray Terrible Crabmeat, the pirate cum babysitter, and Salvation Loveday, the robber turned librarian, with equal aplomb and dashing success. The sparkling wit of the text is matched by his equally witty and well-paced performance. K.T.B. ©AudioFile, Portland, Maine [Published: AUG 93]