Uncle Pirate

It's not every day that a pirate -- and his talking penguin -- show up at the front door! But that's exactly what happens when Wilson's long-lost uncle comes to live with his family. Desperate Evil Wicked Bob and his sidekick, Captain Jack, are not ordinary houseguests. They're not ordinaryanything. Uncle Pirate is having a spot of trouble adjusting to life on land. And Captain Jack wants to go to school to learn to read. Unfortunately, Very Elementary is as far from shipshape and Bristol fashion as a school could be. Until Uncle Pirate steps in, that is....Set sail for a classroom adventure from mollymockery to mathematics in this story of a boy who has whateverykid wants -- a pirate for an uncle.

Douglas Rees is a librarian who resides in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the author of two novels for older readers, Lightning Time and Vampire High.

Tony Auth is a Pulitzer Prize winner and an editorial cartoonist for the Philadelphia Inquirer. His drawings can be found in Daniel Pinkwater’s The Hoboken Chicken Emergency. Tony lives in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania.