When Braid Beard's pirate crew invites Jeremy Jacob to join their voyage, he jumps right on board. Buried treasure, sea chanteys, pirate talk — who wouldn't go along? Soon Jeremy Jacob knows all about being a pirate. He throws his food across the table and his manners to the wind. He hollers like thunder and laughs off bedtime. It's the heave-ho, blow-the-man-down, very

best time of his life. Until he finds out what pirates don't do — no reading bedtime stories, no tucking kids in. . . .Maybe being a pirate isn't so great after all.

	Book of the Year, 2004
Winner of the Irma S. and James H. Black Award for Excellence in Children's Literature

All illustrations copyright ©2003 David Shannon. Published by Harcourt, Inc. and reproduced with permission. All rights reserved.