| Pirates -- Juvenile fiction. |
| Parrots -- Juvenile fiction. |
| Humorous fiction. |
| Fiction. |
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Popular Pete is Perfect for Talk Like a Pirate Day!Following the success of Pirate Pete and Pirate Pete's Giant Adventure comes a new book by the celebrated brother-and-sister team of Doug and Kim Kennedy. In this new adventure, Pete has a wonderful new ship, but no crew. But not just any crew will do. As Pete explains:"Ye gots to be stubborn and mighty cranky,Ye gots to be dirty and awfully stanky!Ye gots to load a cannon and know how to fire it,But most of all, ye gots to talklike a pirate!"One by one Pete interviews his potential crew, and one by one they get the boot! Whoever will he find to help him sail the high seas? A hilarious and fun-to-read-aloud book that will have every child talking like a pirate.Praise for the Pirate Pete booksFamily Choice Award"Arrr, matey, 'tis a fine book indeed." --Kansas City Star"Lots of fun for pint-size buccaneers." --Booklist"Should keep young mateys anchored to their seats." --Kirkus"Clever dialogue, funny illustrations and just the right amount of suspense . . . simply terrific." --The Dallas Morning NewsF&P level: P
Reviews (2)
School Library Journal Review
K-Gr 2-Pirate Pete is back, still wearing his hat with the cheerfully smiling skull-and-crossbones. In Pirate Pete's Giant Adventure (Abrams, 2006), he was granted his wish of a ship to sail on the high seas. Now he and his faithful parrot are off to Rascal Island in search of a crew, and he's looking for buccaneers who can fire a cannon; have peg legs; love treasure; and are stanky, cranky, and stubborn. "But most of all, ye gots to talk like a pirate!" Four rascals answer Pirate Pete's call and seem to be just what he is looking for but, one by one, they are eliminated because they speak in an exceedingly unpiratelike fashion, using words that include "sultry," "irritable," "misappropriated," and "valor." In the end, it's his parrot who talks the best pirate talk and off they go, still looking for the perfect crew. Fun-to-read pirate-speak is paired with oil illustrations that perfectly capture the look and attitude of this bunch of scallywags. Chock-full of fun rhymes and expressive illustrations, this book is sure to please children.-Catherine Callegari, formerly at Gay-Kimball Library, Troy, NH (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Booklist Review
In their third adventure, Pirate Pete and his trusty parrot travel to Rascal Island to find a pirate crew. After hanging a sign across the ship's bow advertising for buccaneers, a boat filled with likely applicants appears. In rhyming verse Pete states the requirements ending with, But most of all, ye gots sic to talk like a pirate. Each of the applicants seems to fit the bill until it comes to the pirate talk.Whenever they speak perfect Queen's English, they have to walk the plank, while Pete shouts out how they might have expressed themselves like pirates. Pete decides that given only he and his parrot talk like pirates, they'll crew all by themselves. As with the previous books, the lush, full-page oil paintings, populated by a varied cast of cartoonlike characters, work together with the text to make this a natural for read-alouds, and both the illustrations and story are detailed enough to inspire multiple readings.--Enos, Randall Copyright 2007 Booklist