Avast, mateys! There be adventure ahead. These swashbuckling stories about pirates and life at sea will hook young readers of all ages.
Your child’s imagination will be swept out to sea as they dive into tales of purloined riches, treasure hunts, and unsolved mysteries featuring real pirates from days gone by.
Books About Pirates
The pre-K crowd will love toilet training with Pirate Potty, a step-by-step story featuring reward stickers and a pirate hat. Or, inspire fantasy play with How I Became a Pirate, featuring scar-faced privateers inked by Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator David Shannon.
Need a break from screen time? Kids will trade their tablets for Walter Wick’s Can You See What I See? Treasure Ship, the fable of a golden doubloon’s destiny, traveling from the hull of a 1700s pirate ship long ago to the shore of a beach town in the present. Or supplement your child’s favorite shows with tales of piracy featuring Spidey and His Amazing Friends (ages 3 - 5) or One Piece (ages 12 and up), the best-selling manga series.
Newly independent readers will jump at the chance to read Haggis and Tank Unleashed #1: All Paws on Deck, the first in a series. Older elementary readers will find humor and excitement in the box set of Puppy Pirates Adventures 1-4, which includes treasure hunts, kitty-cat pranks, and life on the high seas under the stars.
Finally, history lovers will shiver their timbers with Unsolved: Captain Kidd's Treasure, which asks the question, “Did Captain Kidd’s buried treasure exist?” — and if so, where did the man bury it? Read the mystery of the pirate king and his lost riches, pondering what things other treasure hunters got wrong in their quests. Examine real photographs and inspire kids to form their own theories about this pirate mystery.
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