Melinda Long Reviews

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How I Became a Pirate

Author: Melinda Long
Illustrator: David Shannon
Publisher: Harcourt, Inc
Available At: Bookstores Everywhere
Publishing Date: September 2003
Genre: Children: Adventure/Storybook
Format: Hardback
Price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0-15-201848-4
ISBN-13: 9780152018481
Reviewer: Sharyn McGinty
Rating: 9 Gargoyles

Avast, me hearties! Cast off for adventure on the high seas!

Pirates have green teeth—when they have any at all. Jeremy Jacobs knows all about pirates, mainly because he got to join Captain Braid Beard’s crew one afternoon. Being a pirate is great. You sing sea chanteys, eat whatever you please and stay up as late as you want. Jeremy is sure he’ll never want to go back to being just a boy…that is until he learns what pirates don’t do.

Treasure of the best kind! How I Became a Pirate is always in use at my house. My three pirates enjoy it immensely, reading (and fighting over) it throughout every day. Melinda Long’s story captures the joy children have playing pirate, and David Shannon’s illustrations are humorously realistic.

Imaginative and adventurous, How I Became a Pirate belongs in every treasure chest!

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