Pirate Stories: t'good, t' bad, t'ugly

Ahrr you ready for  

International Talk-Like-A-Pirate Day  

on September 19? 

Have you used your books to help you enhance your pirate vocabulary? Do you know how to swab the decks, walk the gangplank, and shiver m' timbers?

After reading any number of these great pirate adventures written by Canadians, you're sure to be ready when September 19th rolls around this year.  And even if you're not into pirate mimicry, these books tell great yarns!  Here we go, me matey!

   Picture Books  

Bigbeard's Hook: Nathaniel McDaniel and the Magic Attic
by Evan Solomon
Illustrated by Bill Slavin
Viking Canada
40 pp.
Ages 6-10
2005


 
Elliot's Shipwreck
by Andrea Beck
Kids Can Press
32 pp.
Ages 4 - 7
2000


 

Freddy's Day at the Races
by Susan Chalker Brown
Illustrated by HildaRose
Orca Book Publishers
32 pp.
Ages 6-12
2008


 
Grandma and the Pirates
by Phoebe Gilman
Scholastic Canada
32 pp.
Ages 5-8
2012 (reissue)



Lucy and the Pirates
by Glen Petrie
Illustrated by Matilda Harrison.
Tradewind Books
32 pp.
Ages 7-10
1996


 
The Pirate and the Penguin
by Patricia Storms
Owlkids Books
32 pp.
Ages 5-8
2009


The Pirate Girl's Treasure: An Origami Adventure 
by Peyton Leung
Illustrated by Hilary Leung
Kids Can Press
32 pp.
Ages 4-8
2012

The Pirates of Captain McKee
[Original title: Whatever You Do, Don’t Go Near That Canoe!]
by Julie Lawson
Illustrated by Werner Zimmerman
Scholastic Canada
30 pp.
Ages 3-9
1996/2008

Princess June and the Shadow Pirates
by Douglas Hopkins
Tuckamore Books
32 pp.
Ages 7-9
2005

Sail Away
by Florence McNeil
Illustrated by David McPhail
Orca Book Publishers
32 pp.
Ages 2-5
2000

Sally Dog Little
by Bill Richardson
Illustrated by Céline Malépart
Annick Press
24 pp.
Ages 6-9
2002

Small Saul
by Ashley Spires
Kids Can Press
32 pp.
Ages
2011

The Terrible Horrible Smelly Pirate
by Carrie Muller and Jacqueline Halsey
Illustrated by Eric Orchard
Nimbus
32 pp.
Ages 4-7
2008

A Treasure at Sea for Dragon and Me: Water Safety for Kids (and Dragons)
by Jean E. Pendziwol
Illustrated by Martine Gourbault
Kids Can Press
32 pp.
Ages 3-7
2005
 

   Chapter Books   

Alex and the Ironic Gentleman      
by Adrienne Kress
Scholastic Canada
382 pp.
Ages 9-12
2007       
 
 


The Ancient Ocean Blues
by Jack Mitchell
Tundra Books
187 pp.
Ages 9-13
2008





Beware, Pirates!  
(Canadian Flyer Adventures 1)
by Frieda Wishinsky
Illustrated by Dean Griffiths
Maple Tree Press
83 pp.
Ages 6-9
2007



Captain Jake
by Shannon Stewart
Illustrated by Ben Hodson
Orca Book Publishers
59 pp.
Ages 7-9
2008

The Dread Crew: Pirates of the Backwoods
by Kate Inglis
Illustrated by Sydney Smith
Nimbus
192 pages
Ages 8-12
2010

Horrendo's Curse
by Anna Fienberg
Illustrated by Kim Gamble
Annick Press
158 pp.
Ages 9-12
2002

Jacob Two-Two on the High Seas
by Cary Fagan
Illustrated by Dušan Petricic
Tundra Books
128 pp.
Ages 7-10
2009

Little Jane Silver
by Adira Rotstein
Dundurn
268 pp.
Ages 9-14
2011

Little Jane Silver and the Nameless Isle
by Adira Rotstein
Dundurn
272 pp.
Ages 9-14
September, 2012

A Noodle Up Your Nose
by Frieda Wishinsky
Illustrated by Louise-Andrée Laliberté
Orca Book Publishers
64 pp.
Ages 6-8
2004

The Secret of Pirate Taz
by Liz Collard
Illustrated by Maia Desjardins
Trafford Publishing
24 pp.
Ages 5-7
2011

The Ship of Lost Souls
by Rachelle Delaney
HarperCollins Canada
233 pp.
Ages 9-12
2009

The Lost Souls of Island X 
by Rachelle Delaney
HarperCollins Canada
240 pp.
Ages 8-12
2011

Torrie and the Pirate Queen
by K.V. Johansen
Illustrated by Christine Delezenne
Annick Press
156 pp.
Ages 9-11
2005

Woolies and Worms
by Stephen MacNeil
Illustrated by John Sandford
Cricket Books / Publishers Group Canada
243 pp.
Ages 8-10
2007

   Young Adult Books   

The Bonemender's Choice
by Holly Bennett
Orca Book Publishers
234 pp.
Ages 11+
2007

The Convicts
by Iain Lawrence
Delacorte/Random House Canada
198 pp.
Ages 11-14
2005

The Cannibals
by Iain Lawrence
Delacorte/Random House Canada
230 pp.
Ages 11-14
2005

The Castaways
by Iain Lawrence
Delacorte/Random House Canada
243 pp.
Ages 10-14
2007

Hamish X and the Cheese Pirates
by Seán Cullen
Illustrated by Johann Wessels
Puffin Canada
293 pp.
Ages 10-13
2006

The Wreckers
by Iain Lawrence
Delacorte/Doubleday
196 pp.
Ages 10-13
1998

The Smugglers
by Iain Lawrence
Dell Yearling/Random House Canada
184 pp.
Ages 10-14
1999

The Buccaneers 
by Iain Lawrence
Delacorte/Random House Canada
244 pp.
Ages 11+
2001

The Island of Mad Scientists: Being an Excursion to the Wilds of Scotland, Involving Many Marvels of Experimental Invention, Pirates, a Heroic Cat, a Mechanical Man and a Monkey: The Mad Misadventures of Emmaline and Rubberbones
by Howard Whitehorse
Illustrated by Bill Slavin
Kids Can Press
262 pp.
Ages 11-14
2008

 
Minerva's Voyage
by Lynne Kositsky
Dundurn
215 pp.
Ages 11-14
2010

Perilous Passage
by B. J. Bayle
Sandcastle/Dundurn
184 pp.
Ages 10-13
2007




Pirates Passage
by William Gilkerson
Trumpeter/Shambhala/Random House Canada
364 pp.
Ages 11-13
2006

Red Sea
by Diane Tullson
Orca Book Publishers
168 pp.
Ages 13-17
2005



 

Skybreaker
by Kenneth Oppel
HarperCollins Canada
340 pp.
Ages 12-16
2005

The Uncle Duncle Chronicles: Escape from Treasure Island
by Darren Krill
Lobster Press
335 pp.
Ages 14-16
2006

   Non-Fiction  

Imagine You're a Pirate
by Meg Clibbon
Illustrated by Lucy Clibbon
Annick Press
32 pp.
Ages 4-9
2002

Lost Treasures: True Stories of Discover
by Larry Verstraete
Scholastic Canada
185 pp.
Ages 9-13
2006

Oak Island Family: The Restall Hunt for Buried Treasure
by Lee Lamb
Dundurn Press
236 pp.
Ages 12+
2012

The Ship That Voted No and Other Stories of Ships and the Sea
by Tommy Keene
Lancelot Press
86 pp.
Ages 12+
1995

A Thousand Years of Pirates
by William Gilkerson
Tundra Books
96 pp.
Ages 10-14
2009