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Q: What do ye call a pirate with two eyes and two legs? (A: A Rookie! )

Pirates Don’t Go to Kindergarten by Lisa Robinson

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I am not crazy about the story of Pirates Don’t Go to Kindergarten due to the slightly bratty nature of the main pirate. I mean, character. Emma is not fond of the idea of “moving on” to kindergarten from preschool. The ship will not be the same without her favorite cubbies, spots and most importantly, her favorite captain. Besides, going to kindergarten means her new captain is one that explores the universe. And what fun is that? This idea of not wanting change, is not a new concept, but Lisa Robinson does take this story on a more modern approach. […]

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8/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:318 |

Do you believe that Pirates don’t takes baths and there are Groovicorns?

Pirates Don’t Take Baths by John Sega

Do You Believe in Groovicorns? by Rosie Greening

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Yesterday was a slow day at work. Therefore, I took a few minutes to look at the new crop of Sale Books that came in. (Long story short, they are just lovely normal books looking for a home, but just have a slightly lower price than usual). Two books that caught my attention were two board books. One, Pirates Don’t Take Baths by John Segal and the other, I actively went looking for as I had been the one to do the data entry on it and Do You Believe in Groovicorns seemed to have potential as Make Believe Idea […]

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5/3/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:149 |

Arrr, There be Pirates and Voodoo Here

On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers

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I needed a book to listen to at work and this came up in the available now selection at my library.  I have never seen the movie so I don’t know if this follows it or if it is even based on the book.  John Chandagnac, a puppeteer,  is sailing on the Vociferous Carmichael to confront his uncle who stole his fathers fortune when it is attacked by pirates.  On board are Beth Hurwood, her father Benjamin, and his doctor Leo Friend.  After wounding the pirate captain, Philip Davies, with a sword fighting move he has memorized from his puppet plays Chandagnac is given the option […]

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1/20/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:4 |

They think, therefore they ARRRR!!!!!

Kindergarrrten Bus by Mike Ornstein

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Yo ho ho! And a bottle of Milk! Listen up you scurry mates! I have one whale of a tale to tell you about! When one tough pirate… bus driver… is all about how brrrave and strrrong pirrrates… I mean kinderrrgarteners are when they are off to their first day of school. That is, until his beloved parrot, Polly, flies off because of stormy seas…. Ah… bumpy roads. This leaves him to show that he might not be so brave himself after all. But with help from some (kinda scared, missing mommies, daddies, doggies and blankies) kids, he (and the […]

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8/24/2018 's CBR10 Review No:320 |

The Memoirs of a Chatty African Grey Parrot

Yiddish for Pirates by Gary Barwin

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Bingo Square: Cannonballer Says! I saw lumenatrix’s review of this one, and was immediately intrigued.  Jewish pirates during the Spanish Inquisition and Columbus? A five-hundred-year old parrot narrator?  A gorgeous cover?  Yes, please! Or to quote the narrator, a story about, “Pirates. Parrots. Jews. Jewels. The Inquisition. Gefilte fish. Gold. A Girl.” While I quite enjoyed this one, I also feel like I approached it in the wrong way.  I was so excited about the whole Jewish pirate thing that I may have raced through the earlier parts of the book to get to the pirating – Moishe doesn’t become […]

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8/20/2018 's CBR10 Review No:151 |

Gourmet Dining on a Pirate Ship

Cinnamon and Gunpowder by Eli Brown

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Bingo Square: Delicious! This was going to be my “Cannonballer Says!” square until I remembered that cinnamon is kind of a food (spices count, right? I mean you eat them, just not in large portions) and the novel’s whole premise is that a chef has to impress a pirate captain with a weekly gourmet food menu, so the novel promptly got moved to “Delicious!” (and replaced by another pirate themed novel for “Cannonballer Says!”). I definitely understand why ElCicco gave this one 3 stars while also calling it a great beach read.  It is fun but it also takes a […]

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8/6/2018 's CBR10 Review No:145 |

Listen to the Farkakte Bird, Bubula. He Has a Story to Tell

Yiddish for Pirates by Gary Barwin

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  This is a very sweet book. It really left me with a warm, fuzzy feeling in my heart. I picked it almost at random from the library website because I have been reading a lot of heavy stuff and I wanted something funny to cleanse the palate a bit and, well Yiddish for Pirates sounds funny. It did the trick, but there is a really good, strong story here too. The story is told by a 500-year-old parrot named Aaron. He has lasted this long because his chosen clavicle, Moishe, is a pirate and in the course of their […]

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7/20/2018 's CBR10 Review No:9 |

Yo ho, Yo ho, A Pirate’s Life For Me

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

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I decided to read Treasure Island after I finished the STARS show Black Sails, because I really enjoyed the show and wanted to read the book they got their inspiration from. To be fair, most pirate fiction probably gets their inspiration from this book, but the show actually used characters from the book to tell their story. And so that is why I struggled through this book for four months. I feel like I’ve lost my reading mojo, because I just couldn’t push past the language to get to the story. Still for starting, or at least defining, a genre […]

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1/8/2018 's CBR10 Review No:2 |


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