Pirates have green teeth--when they have any teeth at all. 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.So proclaims Jeremy Jacob, a boy who joins Captain Braid Beard and his crew in this witty look at the finer points of pirate life by the Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator David Shannon and the storyteller Melinda Long. Jeremy learns how to say "scurvy dog," sing sea chanteys, and throw food . . . but he also learns that there are no books or good night kisses on board: "Pirates don't tuck." A swashbuckling adventure with fantastically silly, richly textured illustrations that suit the story to a T.
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Melinda Long is the author of New York Times best-selling books How I Became a Pirate and Pirates Don't Change Diapers , as well as The Twelve Days of Christmas in South Carolina . She graduated from Furman University and was a middle school teacher for twenty-three years.
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David Shannon is the creator of the Caldecott Honor- winning No, David! and more than thirty other books beloved by children who "recognize immediately that they have found a kindred spirit" (New York Times). He lives in Los Angeles.
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