A treasury of pirate stories
By: chosen by Tony Bradman ; illustrated by Tony Ross
Publisher: Kingfishers
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9780753451908
Subjects: Juvenile fiction; Children's stories, English; Short stories; Pirates; Fiction
Description: A collection of stories about pirates and pirating, by such authors as Joan Aiken, J. M. Barrie, and Robert Louis Stevenson.
Table of contents: title: Pirate ship  -- Ruth Ainsworth; title: Not-so-Jolly Roger  -- Jon Scieszka; title: Pirats  -- Colin McNaughton; title: Peter Pan  -- J.M. Barrie; title: One-eyed Jake  -- Pat Hutchins; title: Parrot pirate princess  -- Joan Aiken; title: Skulduggery  -- Tony Robinson; title: Battle in houseboat bay  -- Authur Ransome; title: Mystery of the pirate ghost  -- Geoffrey Hayes; title: Treasure Island  -- Joyce Faraday; title: Pirate Queen  -- Emily Arnold McCully; title: Tale of the bad ship "Torment"  -- Sara Conkey; title: Man whose mother was a pirate -- Margaret Mahy.