Sailors & Scallywags: The BLOODY JACK and TREASURE ISLAND Conversation

Sailors & Scallywags:
The BLOODY JACK and TREASURE ISLAND Conversation

Beware the Black Spot, me mates! Whether you be the young Jim Hawkins or the guttersnipe Jacky Faber, there be adventure at sea for those that choose it. Treasure, yes, but also the treachery and trickery of pirates.

SYNC sets sail with the cunning Jacky in her first appearance in BLOODY JACK and with Master Hawkins, friend (and foe) to the pirate Long John Silver in the classic TREASURE ISLAND.

Both audiobooks have been honored with an Odyssey Award Honor for their outstanding productions.

X marks the spot for your thoughts, links, and other mutinous musings that arise when you listen to these audiobooks. JOIN the conversation in comments below.

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You can join the conversation about these titles by looking for these editions at your library or your preferred retailer:

BLOODY JACK by L.A. Meyer (Read by Katherine Kellgren)

TREASURE ISLAND by Robert Louis Stevenson (Read by Alfred Molina)

SYNC EVENT
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Katherine Kellgren, the narrator of BLOODY JACK will be joining this conversation for a SYNC EVENT later in the summer (date TBA). If you have a question or comment about BLOODY JACK to add to this event with Ms. Kellgren, post it in the discussion with "For Sync Event" leading the comment.

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Sync Head on July 15, 2010 at 9:08am

If you are or become a hardcore Jacky Faber fan you can walk the plank of the Jacky Faber Boards (fan forum) here.

Permalink Reply by Sync Head on July 15, 2010 at 9:10am

A map of Jacky Faber's London courtesy of author L.A. Meyer!

Permalink Reply by Julie on July 15, 2010 at 9:32am

I just waited forever to download Bloody Jack from the New York library! And here it is for free. But it was worth the wait. Now I need to join the Queens library to download the next 2. Here's a link to my review on my blog: http://theprofoundelephant.wordpress.com/2010/07/09/by-the-waters-e...

Permalink Reply by Kirsten Cappy on July 15, 2010 at 9:43am

BLOODY JACK is well worth the wait and the travails with you iPod cord, Julie! I read the books in hard copy and have revisited them in audio. Katherine Kellgren's narration is the VERY best in audiobook performance.

Permalink Reply by Judy on July 18, 2010 at 4:56pm

I have listened to the first six Jacky books and Katherine Kellgren never fails to deliver. I especially enjoy her dialects (she is equally charming in Baker's FROG PRINCESS, voicing a range of animals); the singing included in the Jacky books is beautiful and often haunting as well. She is so talented that I need to go back and read some of the books without her influence to better appreciate how my students respond to these adventures if they don't have listening opportunities!

My classroom library and I have been transferred from seventh to sixth grade this year and I plan to take Jacky with me even though my seventh grade girls implied they thought Jacky was a bit precocious. What age students would others recommend for this series?

Permalink Reply by Ann Bryant on July 15, 2010 at 10:19am

Can't get the download link?!? Is it missing?

Permalink Reply by Kirsten Cappy on July 15, 2010 at 10:24am

Are you going here?
http://www.audiobookcommunity.com/page/sync-link

Permalink Reply by Jenn Dowell on July 15, 2010 at 10:24am

Try here, Ann! http://www.audiobookcommunity.com/page/sync-link

Permalink Reply by Ann Bryant on July 15, 2010 at 10:33am

Woo Hoo!!! Downloading now! Thanks very much, guys. :) The "here" above just didn't link, and it's too early in the morning for me to figure it out, LOL ... I'm good now!

Permalink Reply by Amy Stafford on July 15, 2010 at 11:17am

Holy cow, I love the Bloody Jack series!! In fact, a co-worker and I are doing two booktalks today for two groups of teens and one of the books we are booktalking is Bloody Jack!

I love that it is paired with Treasure Island. Very cool!

Permalink Reply by AudioFile Magazine on July 15, 2010 at 12:18pm

If you're a fan of Jacky, you probably already know that there are SEVEN audiobooks in the Bloody Jack series, with #8 coming soon!

Read more about the narrator of all of them, the fabulous Katherine Kellgren.

#1 BLOODY JACK
Being An Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship's Boy

#2 CURSE OF THE BLUE TATTOO
Being An Account of the Misadventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman and Fine Lady

#3 UNDER THE JOLLY ROGER
Being An Account of the Further Nautical Adventures of Jacky Faber

#4 IN THE BELLY OF THE BLOODHOUND
Being An Account of a Particularly Peculiar Adventure in the Life of Jacky Faber

#5 MISSISSIPPI JACK
Being An Account of the Further Waterborne Adventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman, Fine Lady, and the Lily of the West

#6 MY BONNY LIGHT HORSEMAN
Being An Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, in Love and War

#7 RAPTURE OF THE DEEP
Being An Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, Soldier, Sailor, Mermaid, Spy

#8 THE WAKE OF THE LORELEI LEE coming this fall!!
Being An Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, On Her Way to Botany Bay

Permalink Reply by Sync Head on July 23, 2010 at 9:42pm

Great interview with BLOODY JACK author L.A. Meyer in Audiofile Magazine.