Bloomsbury presents Perla and the Pirate by Isabel Allende, read by Daisy Guevera
Get ready to meet Perla - the feisty, magical rescue dog who will steal your heart!
From #1 international bestselling author Isabel Allende and award-winning illustrator Sandy Rodriguez comes another irresistible picture book about Perla, the Mighty Dog, and the family who love her!
Perla is a small dog with a BIG personality and a very impressive roar. Her best friend is seven-year-old Nico Rico. But when Nico goes missing after school one day, it's up to Perla - and The Pirate who lives next door - to find Nico and bring him home safely.
Can Perla save the day once again?
The adorable follow-up to Perla: The Mighty Dog.

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Isabel Allende, born in Peru and raised in Chile, is a novelist, feminist, and philanthropist. She is one of the most widely read authors in the world, having sold more than eighty million copies of her books across forty-two languages. She is the author of several bestselling and critically acclaimed books, including The Wind Knows My Name, Violeta, A Long Petal of the Sea, The House of the Spirits, Of Love and Shadows, Eva Luna, and Paula. In addition to her work as a writer, Isabel devotes much of her time to human rights causes. She has received fifteen honorary doctorates, been inducted into the California Hall of Fame, and received the PEN Center Lifetime Achievement Award and the Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2014, President Barack Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation-s highest civilian honor, and in 2018, she received the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation. She lives in California with her husband and dogs.You can visit Isabel Allende at IsabelAllende.com or follow her on Instagram @AllendeIsabel, on Facebook at Facebook.com/IsabelAllende and on X @IsabelAllende