Books with title Meet the Pirates

One night, Emily Jane is trying to get to sleep when suddenly, there is an enormous thunk! and a dozen Monkey Pirates tumble out of her wardrobe. Monkey Pirates are in search of yellow, bendy treasure and they travel through space and time in wardrobes to look for it. No sooner does Emily Jane hear this, than she hops into the wardrobe with them and travels off in search of her missing Uncle Bartholomew who invented the wardrobe and who has a huge beard. There follows much silliness involving Buckingham Palace, a bearded professor, bananas, a time-telescope, and a Monkey Pirate called Dave, who's trying very hard to learn the ropes but would secretly prefer to be a librarian. Will Emily Jane find her Uncle Bartholomew? Will Dave ever learn to say "Aaarrgh!" properly? Join the crew to find out! Bananas and barnacles!

Orphaned in 17th century Whitby, ten years old Carlyle sets off to London to seek his fortune, but is kidnapped by a pirate press gang along with five other street urchins to sail on the ‘Black Prince’ and learn the pirate ways under the leadership of the tyrannical Black Bert. On an epic voyage to the West Indies, he makes friends with another orphan called Woody and a wounded albatross he named Arnie. Carlyle will need all the skills acquired on his late father’s fishing boat to survive life on a pirate ship.A mutiny on the ‘Black Prince’ left many dead, as Black Bert struggled to assert his authority.Sea battles, cannon-fire, hurricanes and swordplay, are all elements of a pirate’s way of life.The pirates become bolder, their fleet expanding. Attacks on ships sailing to the fledgling American Colonies, bring retribution. In a fierce battle with a British Man-o-War the outcome hangs in the balance.What will become of Woody when he jumps ship in Nassau? Will Carlyle survive a shipwreck on the captured Spanish frigate ‘Stella de Cadiz’, renamed ‘Pieces of Eight’? Will they ever see Old England’s shores again?

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The circumstances in which “The Pirate” was composed have for the Editor a peculiar interest. He has many times scribbled at the old bureau in Chiefswood whereon Sir Walter worked at his novel, and sat in summer weather beneath the great tree on the lawn where Erskine used to read the fresh chapters to Lockhart and his wife, while the burn murmured by from the Rhymer’s Glen. So little altered is the cottage of Chiefswood by the addition of a gabled wing in the same red stone as the older portion, so charmed a quiet has the place, in the shelter of Eildon Hill, that there one can readily beget the golden time again, and think oneself back into the day when Mustard and Spice, running down the shady glen, might herald the coming of the Sheriff himself. Happy hours and gone: like that summer of 1821, whereof Lockhart speaks with an emotion the more touching because it is so rare,—

*This book is Annotated (It contains a biography of the Author).* A contemporary of Charles Dickens, Captain Frederick Marryat was an officer in the Royal British Navy who, also a novelist, certainly followed the old line about writing what you know. The result is an accessible, deeply immersive, high-seas adventure full of chases, battles, baddies getting their comeuppance, the proven loyalty of friends, romance, and reunions. Fair warning that this is a novel of its time, using slurs against and references to captive slaves out of Africa we would not tolerate today.

The little destroyer rounded to alongside, and slowed down to a little more than the speed of the larger ship, which permitted her to creep along the huge, black side, inch by inch, until the bridges were nearly abreast. Then a white-whiskered man on the high bridge hailed: "Steamer ahoy! What do you want?" "Want all that bullion stowed in your strong room," answered Forsythe through a megaphone. "Load your gold into one of your own boats, the provisions in another. Lower them down and let the falls unreeve, so that they will go adrift. We will pick them up."

Orphaned in 17th century Whitby, ten years old Carlyle sets off to London to seek his fortune, but is kidnapped by a pirate press gang along with five other street urchins to sail on the ‘Black Prince’ and learn the pirate ways under the leadership of the tyrannical Black Bert. On an epic voyage to the West Indies, he makes friends with another orphan called Woody and a wounded albatross he named Arnie. Carlyle will need all the skills acquired on his late father’s fishing boat to survive life on a pirate ship. A mutiny on the ‘Black Prince’ left many dead, as Black Bert struggled to assert his authority. War the outcome hangs in the balance. What will become of Woody when he jumps ship in Nassau? Will Carlyle survive a Sea battles, cannon-fire, hurricanes and swordplay, are all elements of a pirate’s way of life. The pirates become bolder, their fleet expanding. Attacks on ships sailing to the fledgling American Colonies, bring retribution. In a fierce battle with a British Man-o-shipwreck on the captured Spanish frigate ‘Stella de Cadiz’, renamed ‘Pieces of Eight’? Will they ever see Old England’s shores again?