“Before Anyone had heard of Black Beard, Long John Silver, or Calico Jack, there was a pirate named ROGER.”
So begins Roger, the Jolly Pirate, a children’s book written and illustrated by Brett Helquist. Roger was not your scariest pirate, not by a long shot. Instead of a parrot screeching “pieces of eight!”, a chicken perched on his shoulder. He was too happy, too. Never a cause for alarm, his shipmates disparagingly named him “Jolly Roger”.
But one day, as his shipmates battle for their lives, Roger is confined below decks. To win the crews approval he bakes a cake using anything and everything he could find. His plan works, though the way he had planned.
Helquist does a good job here. His story is as silly as his illustrations. This is a good book to read aloud to your young pirates or for your older crew in the early grades to read to themselve – but only if they like to laugh aloud.
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