Talk Like A Pirate Day!

Ahoy! Tuesday September 19, 2006 is the official Talk Like A Pirate Day! Of course we will be celebrating pirates at the library with pirate story times Tuesday Sept. 19 at 11:0 a.m. and Wednesday Sept. 20 at 1:00 p.m. Tom and Joan will read several pirate stories to the children who attend story time on these days and then I will follow up with a fun pirate craft! Even if you can't attend any of our story times just remember to talk like a pirate or read some of the listed pirate books you can find at the library! Arrr!~Sara

Picture Books

• Dora's Pirate Adventure by Christine Ricci
• Tough Boris by Mem Fox
• Pirate girl by Cornelia Funke
• Roger, the Jolly Pirate by Brett Helquist
• Shiver me letters : a pirate ABC by June Sobel
• Pirates ahoy! by Hans Wilhelm

Juvenile Chapter Books

• Daring pirate women by Anne W. Sharp (non-fiction)
• Pirateology : the Pirate hunter's companion edited by Dugald A. Steer (non-fiction)
• Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
• How to be a pirate by Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III
• The not-so-jolly Roger by Jon Scieszka
• Pirates Past Noon by Mary Pope Osborne
• Pirates! : raiders of the high seas by Christopher Maynard (non-fiction)
• The short and bloody history of pirates by John Farman (non-fiction)

Teen Fiction

• Piratica : being a daring tale of a singular girl's adventure upon the high seas by Tanith Lee
• Bloody Jack by L.A. Meyer