How I Became a Pirate
by Melinda Long
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Author: Melinda LongEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Published)
Published: 2003-09-01
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 44
Publisher: Harcourt, Inc.
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Book Review: A Great Reading Adventure!
Summary: 5 Stars
How I Became a Pirate
My 4 yr. old son and I stumbled upon this book at the library. We checked it out and soon discovered the book was a wonderful treasure. We had to buy a copy to add to our home library.
David Shannon's vibrant, humurous illustrations add a magical touch to this story. Parents and children alike will love reading this imaginative, humurous story again and again.
Summary of How I Became a Pirate
When Braid Beard's pirate crew invites Jeremy Jacob to join their voyage, he jumps right on board. Buried treasure, sea chanteys, pirate talk--who wouldn't go along? Soon Jeremy Jacob knows all about being a pirate. He throws his food across the table and his manners to the wind. He hollers like thunder and laughs off bedtime. It's the heave-ho, blow-the-man-down, very best time of his life. Until he finds out what pirates don't do--no reading bedtime stories, no tucking kids in. . . . Maybe being a pirate isn't so great after all.
Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator David Shannon teams up with witty storyteller Melinda Long for a hilarious look at the finer points of pirate life.
(20030901)Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator David Shannon teams up with witty storyteller Melinda Long for a hilarious look at the finer points of pirate life.
Young Jeremy Jacob is plucked from obscurity while innocently constructing a sand castle and is thrust into a brand-new life as a pirate. Captain Braid Beard and his crew recognize Jeremy as an exceptionally talented digger and they happen to be in desperate need of a digger to help them bury a treasure chest. Jeremy thinks a pirate life sounds like fun, as long as he?s back the next day in time for soccer practice, and so he goes along with the ragtag group of seafaring thugs (with hearts of gold, naturally). And while Jeremy adores the pirates? lack of table manners and opposition to vegetables, he comes to realize that a life away from his parents lacks some of the niceties to which he?s become accustomed. Nobody tucks him in at night, for instance, and the only book available to read is a treasure map. Melinda Long?s story, narrated with a sense of boastful exaggeration by Jeremy, is full of a sense of high adventure that's lovingly evocative of Robert Louis Stevenson?s classic tales. David Shannon's illustrations, full of a goofy vibrancy, are a perfect accompaniment to the story. (Ages 4 to 8) --John Moe
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