Aye Matey! This book finally got my son to want to read a book!

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	• How I Became a Pirate Melinda Long Harcourt, Inc., 2003 - 44 pages average customer review:based on 88 reviews view larger image
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How I Became a Pirate

Wonderful for little boys who have changed their loyalty from Thomas the Tank Engine to PIRATES! Good story. The little boy has an advernture out to sea with a group of scurvy pirates. At first he loves the adventure but wishes to be home at bed time. A storm causes a change in directions and he does come home. All is in good taste. The illustrations are great. "Pirates Don't Change Diapers" is next in the series and Great too!

Arrrggh

I always wanted to be a pirate, and if your kid wants to be, they will love this book.

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Great illustrations and totally entertaining story

I bought this for my 3 1/2 year old grandson and he loved it. Whenever Grammy comes to visit I try to have scoured Amazon.com for what look like the best children's books and as he had loved David Shannon's books I bought this one as I knew the illustrations would be colorful. It is a fun story but the best part, it lends itself so well to playing imaginatively. Immediately after reading it, we went outside and I played cartographer helping my grandson draw our own treasure map with instructions how to get to the tree in his backyard where we buried a seashell. He was so excited to show his Mommy and his baby brother how well the map worked and where our treasure was buried. Great little story and we read it several times over the next few days...always noticing something else in the pictures we hadn't seen before and then making up our own stories about what we saw. So I bought "Pirates Don't Change Diapers" also and pirate tattoos to continue the saga. Lots of scope for the imagination here!

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Aye Matey! This book finally got my son to want to read a book!

I love pirate talk and this book has a lot of it. But it's the perfect kind of pirate talk for young children. They don't talk about drinking rum, fighting bandits or stealing from other ships ... it talks about pillow fights, staying up late and burying treasure!

Sweet, little Jeremy Jacob spies a pirate ship while making a sand castle and goes on board to help them find a place to bury their treasure (arrrgh matey). He soon learns that the life of a pirate is the life to lead! You don't have to eat your veggies, no manners to be had and you get to stay up really late! But then he learns the down side to being a pirate and that is not being able to play soccer and being away from his family - especially at night when he's trying to find a place to sleep.

This is a very cute book and it's very well-done. The illustrations are really great and sparked other conversations. I wished that I would have had this book when I was younger. My siblings and I would have LOVED this!! But instead my children do and that's just as great.

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Great Pirate Book

My boys have two books from this collection and LOVE them both! Great photos and funny story.

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