I know about pirates, because one day, when I was at the beach building a sand castle and minding my own business, a pirate ship sailed into view. Pirates have green teeth-when they have any teeth at all.

Luckily, his mother reassures him that she would find him, even if she had to swim on a dolphin, battle sea monsters, and wield a bottle of pirate-shrinking magic spray to do it! Young readers will love this adventurous and ultimately reassuring tale of a mother’s love. The neighbors are thrilled, but Matilda is sad to have lost her new friend, until she discovers her own treasure - a pen pal!Īfter reading his favorite book about a pirate boy, Danny wonders what would happen if he sailed away on a pirate ship. When the JolleyRogers return to sea, the town realizes that they were wrong to assume the worst when it is discovered that the pirates have buried treasure in everyone’s yard. Defying the grown-ups, Matilda becomes friends with young pirate Jim Lad. This unusual family soon has the whole neighborhood gossiping. Meet the Jolley-Rogers - a pirate family who is moving to Dull-on-Sea, a quiet seaside town, while they fix up their ship. Being rough and tough just isn’t in his nature. He was born to sing sea shanties, bake pineapple upside down cakes and redecorate, not to hold a sword and plunder. When Small Saul joins the crew of The Rusty Squid, it doesn’t take long for the other pirates to notice something is very different about this tiny fellow. Or is he? When a young boy sneaks onto Boris’s ship, he discovers that Boris and his mates aren’t quite what he expected.Īnother ones of our favorite pirate picture books (also, I love that the French version is Petite Paul).

Our favorite Mem Fox picture book! Tough Borisīoris von der Borch is a mean, greedy old pirate–tough as nails, through and through, like all pirates. We did everything from drawing pirates to creating pirate names, to watching videos about why they actual wore eye patches and of course: reading pirate themed books!Ĭheck out the pirate mini unit study resources. If you are interested in continuing to learn about pirates you can check out a list of the resources we used for our pirate unit study here. This list includes a bit of everything, picture books, chapter books, fiction and non-fiction. We’ve been learning all about pirates for the last week in preparation for Talk Like a Pirate Day and of course I had to share a pirate book list!

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