PIRATES

Ahoy, matey! Pirates came in all sizes, shapes and genders. They operated everywhere from the Erie Canal to the Caribbean.

Picture books
Alvin the pirate by Ulf Lofgren
The ballad of the pirate queens by Jane Yolen

Captain Abdul's pirate school by Colin McNaughton
Come away from the water, Shirley by John Burningham
Edward and the pirates by David McPhail
The Erie Canal pirates by Eric Kimmel
The night pirates by Peter Harris
Pirate girl by Cornelia Funke
How I became a pirate by Melinda Long
The night pirates by Peter Harris
The pirates of Bedford Street by Rachel Isadora
Rabbit pirates: a tale of the Spanish Main by Judy Cox
Robin Hook, pirate hunter! by Eric A. Kimmel
Roger, the jolly pirate by Brett Helquist

Easy readers
Commander Toad and the space pirates by Janet Yolen
Do pirates take baths? by Kathy Tucker
Pirate school by Cathy Dubrowski

Chapter books

Bloody Jack: Being an account of the curious adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, ship's boy by L.A. Meyer

The dark frigate by Charles Hawes Boardman
The giant rat of Sumatra or pirates galore by Sid Fleischman
How to be a pirate by Cressida Cowell
The last of the sky pirates by Paul Stewart
The not-so-jolly Roger by Jon Scieszka
Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry
Pirate diary by Richard Platt
Pirates don’t wear pink sunglasses by Debbie Dadey
Pirates past noon by Will Osborne
Pirate’s promise by Peter Burchard
Skybreaker by Kenneth Oppel
True confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi

Violet and the mean and rotten pirates by Richard Hamilton

Real pirates
The Barbarosa brothers by Aileen Weintraub
Pirates by Patricia Netzley
Pirates and privateers of the high seas by Laura Lee Wren
The pirate’s handbook by Margarette Lincoln
Seafaring women by Linda Grant De Pauw
What if you met a pirate? by Jan Adkins

Fables and fairy tales
The barefoot book of pirates by Richard Walker