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Pirate Girl

Pirate Girl
Cornelia Funke
Illustrated by Kerstin Meyer
Picture Book
Ages 4 to 8
Scholastic, 2003, 0-439-71672-1

Pirate Pup

Pirate Pup
Caroline Stutson
Illustrated by Robert Rayevsky
Picture Book
Ages 4 to 8
Chronicle, 2005, 0-8118-4239-8
 

Fluffy Scourge of the sea

Fluffy: Scourge of the sea
Teresa Bateman
Illustrated by Michael Chesworth
Picture Book
Ages 3 to 8
Charlesbridge, 2005, 1-58089-099-7 

Dead Reckoning

Dead Reckoning: A Pirate Voyage with Captain Drake
Laurie Lawlor
Historical Fiction
Ages 12 and up
Simon and Schuster, 2005, 0-689-86577-5
 

The Lost Treasure of Captain Kidd

The Lost Treasure of Captain Kidd
Peter Lourie
Fiction
Ages 10 to 12
Boyds Mills Press, 2000, 1-56397-851-2
 

Seadogs

Seadogs: An Epic Ocean Operetta
Lisa Wheeler
Illustrated by Mark Siegel
Picture Book
Ages 7 and up
Simon and Schuster, 2004, 0-689-85689-X  

Bigbeard's Hook

Bigbeard’s Hook
Evan Solomon
Illustrated by Bill Slavin
Picture Book
Ages 5 to 8
Penguin Canada, 2005, 0-670-06386-X 

Maisy's Pirate Treasure

Maisy's Pirate Treasure Hunt
Lucy Cousins
Lift-the-flaps board book (Series)
Ages 2 to 4
Candlewick, 2004, 0-7636-2469-1 

A Pirate's Life for Me

A Pirate's Life For Me: A day aboard a Pirate Ship
Julie Thompson and Brownie Macintosh
Illustrated by Patrick O Brien
Non-fiction Picture Book
Ages 6 to 8
Charlesbridge, 1996, 0-88106-931-0  

Edward and the Pirates

Edward and the Pirates
David McPhail
Picture Book
Ages 3 and up
Little Brown, 1997, 0-316-56344-7
  

See-Through Pirates

See-Through Pirates
Kelly Davis
Non-fiction
Ages 8 to 12
Running Press, 2003, 0-7624-1587-8

Bloody Jack

Bloody Jack: Being and Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship's Boy
L. A. Meyer
Young Adult Fiction
Ages 14 and up
Harcourt, 2002, 0-15-205085-X 

Pirate Diary

Pirate Diary: The Journal of Jake Carpenter
Richard Platt
Illustrated by Chris Riddell
Picture Book Fiction and Non-fiction
Ages 8 and up
Candlewick Press, 2001, 0-7636-0848-3
 

Eyewitness Pirates

Eyewitness: Pirate
Richard Platt
Photographs by Tina Chambers
Non-Fiction (Series)
Ages 10 and up
DK, 2004, 0-7566-0713-2
 

Pirates!
Celia Rees
Novel
Ages 15 and up
Bloomsbury, 2003, 1-58234-816-2
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Pirates!
The Queen's Pirates

The Queen's Pirates
Derek Parker
Non-Fiction (Series)
Ages 12 and up
Scholastic Children's Books (UK), 2004, 0-439-96312-5
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The World of Pirates

The World Of Pirates
Philip Steele
Non-Fiction
Ages 8 and up
Kingfisher, 2004, USA $8.95, 0-7634-5486-5 

Airborn

Airborn
Kenneth Oppel
Fiction (Series)
Ages 12 and up
Harpercollins, 2004, 0-06-053180-0
 

The barefoot book of pirates

The Barefoot Book of Pirates
Retold by Richard Walker
Illustrated by Olwyn Whelan
Picture Book and Audio CD
Ages 8 to 10
Barefoot Books, 1998, 1-84148-131-9

Blackbeard's Last Fight

Blackbeard’s Last Fight
Eric A Kimmel
Pictures by Leonard Everett Fisher
Non-fiction and Fiction picture book
Ages 7 to 10
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006, 0-374-30780-6
 

What if you met a pirate

What if you met a pirate?
Jan Adkins
Non-Fiction
Ages 6 to 9
Roaring Brook Press, 2004, 1-59643-007-9

Blackbeard the pirate king

Blackbeard: The Pirate King
J. Patrick Lewis
Poetry Picture Book
Ages 7 to 10
National Geographic, 2006, 0-7922-5585-2
 
 

How to be a pirate

How to be a Pirate
John Malam
Illustrated by Mark Bergin
Non-Fiction (Series)
Ages 8 to 12
National Geographic, 2005, 0-7922-7448-2
 

Piratepedia

Piratepedia
Alisha Nichaus and Alan Hecker
Fiction and non-Fiction
Ages 7 to 12
DK, 2007, 978-0-7566-2660-0
 
 
 

Piratology

Pirateology: A Pirate Hunter’s Companion
Dugald A. Steer
Illustrated by Ian Andrew, Anne Yvonne Gilbert, and Helen Ward
Novelty Fiction and Non-fiction
Ages 9 to 12
Candlewick Press, 2006, 0-7636-3143-4
 
 

Piratteology Guidebook and Model Set

Pirateology: Guidebook and Model Set

Dugald A. Steer

Illustrated by Anne Yvonne Gilbert, Emma Nichols, Helen Ward, and Ian Andrew

Book and Model Ship

Ages 9 to 12

Candlewick Press, 2007, 978-0-7636-3582-4

 

The Castaway Pirates

The Castaway Pirates: A pop-up tale of bad luck, sharp teeth, and stinky toes

Ray Marshall

Illustrated by Wilson Swain

Pop-up book

Ages 5 to 7

Chronicle Books, 2008, 978-0-8118-5923-3

Here come the pirates

Here come the pirates!

Martina Laykamm

Novelty Book

Ages 2 to 4

NorthSouth, 2007, 0735821313

 

 

 

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