Book review, play ideas and a short list of suggestions for more Pirate book titles ..
The Night Pirates - written by Peter Harris and Illustrated by Deborah Allwright
A wonderful rhyming book that engages the reader with bright adventurous illustrations and text that almost tells a story in itself.
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Up go the sails and up goes the flag.
All aboard for a night-time adventure.
When dark shadows come stealing
down Tom's bedroom walls he thinks it might be
monsters or ogres or trolls.
But the truth is much stranger.
It's Pirates !
(and very unusual pirates, at that.)
What do they want with the front of Tom's house?
and where are they going?
Tom is
about
to find
out ...
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Enjoy a Pirate theme in your setting with our other activity ideas ~ Pirate Forum
Other good pirate books iunclude:
Patrick the Pirate Pig - a very cute hardboard book with a great 'you can do whatever you want' tale to it 
and ... if Henrietta Hen can be a Parrot, Patrick Pig can certainly be a pirate ...
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Once upon a tide - Tony Mitton
This book has two front cover versions!!
