A National Bestseller A beautiful generous fun collaboration of story and illustration and pirate tattoos. Seriously wise pirate advice for everyone. Jon Scieszka National Ambassador for Young Peoples Literature CeCe dreams of being a pirate. When the neighborhood boys tell her that she cant she wonders where to begin. Luckily she suspects her grandpa must know something about being a piratewhy else would he have all those tattoos As he shares each tattoo Grandpa and CeCe are transported from adventure to adventure and CeCe discovers that there are all kinds of ways to be a pirateBe BRAVE Be QUICK Be INDEPENDENT And FUNand most of all whether youre a pirate or not the most important thing you can do is to BELIEVE IN YOURSELF. This heartwarming and imaginative story from Isaac Fitzgerald and bestselling illustrator Brigette Barrager is a vibrant joyful expression of what it means to be all kinds of wonderful things . . . including a pirate. show more