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(3) 4-6 Illustrated by Dan Burr. These twenty poems acknowledge that pirate life is not all swashbuckling fun. Regardless, pirate aficionados will get their fill of shivering timbers and "scurvy mates...rotten through and through." The poems scan well, and the realistic-looking illustrations are aptly dark-hued and moody. An author's note tells more about real pirates. Bib.

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