Well, this will be treasured and no mistake. What we have is a short, simple tale of a girl's fantasy of being a pirate, besting her enemies and more, and finding treasure, when all she really is doing is letting off some steam and using her imagination before she goes to bed. This would be standard fare, except for two very important reasons. One is that it is drawn by An Leysen, who hands down is one of the top five producers of such books anywhere. Fact.

The other is that this is a multi-media product, in that its board pages have buttons to push to activate the memory chip and play excerpts from Beethoven. Now sometimes this works, and sometimes not – the spread where our heroine boards her rival's ship has music to go with it that makes Beethoven sound like a plinky-plonky silent film accompanist. The opening notes of the 5th I don't think have ever heralded a scary sea monster before now. I think other buttons introduce relevant sound FX, too, but all I was privy to was the music. And what a great way to fashion an interest in classical music in a young, susceptible audience! If you're still helping a young book user out with the text (not that there's too much), a rehearsal or two would have you timing the cues perfectly to create the whole sonic effect. Even if you're letting a youngster play with it, before they run down the three cell batteries needed they will have got to marry the sound with the story, and made themselves much cleverer as a result – just think how music ties with storytelling via film, TV and of course the narratives behind classical music. Literacy in those fields is just as important as literacy in what's on the page. As a result this is definitely five stars.