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Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Mateys! The Pirate Tree by Brigita Orel

Sam's ship may look like an old tree, but with a sheet for a sail and a rope for the anchor, she is The Captain.

But one day someone else appears and asks permission to come aboard.

Sam hoists the sheet up over a branch and glares.

"I don't know you. You're not from my street.

Beware, here come pirates! ARRRR!" Sam yells.

The boy looks sad, but he persists.
"I sailed on a ship. I can tell you about it."

Sam is intrigued and invites him to come aboard ship.

Together they are not strangers, but shipmates who sail to treasure islands, weather wild storms, and fight off pirates, and when Dad the Cook calls from the galley, they lower the anchor and go together to the mess cabin. And the tree waits, hoping for more sailing adventures.

In Brigitta Orgel's The Pirate Tree (Lantana Publishing Company, 2019), a simple story of an unexpected friendship shared is set forth in the lovely artwork of Jennie Poh, whose illustrations extend the story beyond its narration of imaginative play to a deeper theme of shared experiences and borders crossed and far seas sailed. School Library Journal says, "Readers will be rooting for the two, hopeful that they will conquer all obstacles, both imaginary and realistic."

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