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Author Long, Melinda, author.

Title How I became a pirate / written by Melinda Long ; illustrated by David Shannon.

Publication Info. New York : Scholastic, 2004.
©2003

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Children's & Young Adult Collection  CH/YA Easy Long How 2004        Gift of Phyllis Fantauzzo
Edition First edition.
Description 34 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
age Children
Series Ready-to-go classroom library. Grade 1
Ready-to-go classroom library. Grade 1.
Note David Shannon (born October 5, 1959) is an American writer and illustrator of children's books. Shannon grew up in Spokane, Washington. He graduated from the Art Center College of Design and now lives in Los Angeles. In 1998 he won the Caldecott Honor for his No, David!. He has also written A Bad Case of Stripes, How Georgie Radbourn Saved Baseball, and The Amazing Christmas Extravaganza. Shannon illustrated Audrey Wood's The Bunyans, Rafe Martin's "The Rough Face Girl", various books by Jane Yolen, including The Ballad of the Pirate Queens and Encounter, as well as Melinda Long's How I Became a Pirate and Pirates Don't Change Diapers.
"This edition is only available for distribution through the school market"--Page 4 of cover.
Summary Jeremy Jacob joins Braid Beard and his pirate crew and finds out about pirate language, pirate manners, and other aspects of their life.
Performer Read by Miles Purington.
Awards School Library Journal Best Books, 2003.
Provenance Gift of Phyllis Fantauzzo
Subject Pirates -- Juvenile fiction.
Pirates.
Genre/Form Fiction.
Juvenile works.
Fiction.
Added Author Shannon, David, 1959- illustrator.
Scholastic Inc., publisher.
ISBN 0439692334
0439699371
0439664748
9780439664745
9780439692335
9780439699372