AHOY! IT BE INTERNATIONAL TALK LIKE A PIRATE DAY!
Shiver me timbers! It’s September 19, International Talk Like a Pirate Day! I hope ye be celebratin’ in style. Even a landubber like ye can talk like a pirate. It just takes practice. Just ask our matey, Humphrey, whose next book of adventures takes place on the high seas. (Well, Potter’s Pond.) It’s a fur-raising tale which will keep ye guessin’: will Humphrey win a treasure chest of gold … or end up in Davey Jones’ locker? (That be the bottom o’ the sea … er, Potter’s Pond.)
Ye’ll have to wait ’til February to find out if ye dwell in the U.S.
Readers in the U.K. got a preview this March for World Book Day. But they’ll learn the rest o’ the story later next year.
Here be a peek at the covers.
Top: UK World Book cover 2008, below, US cover 2009
In further celebration of this illustrious day, here be a swashbuckling riddle:
Q.: Why does it take pirates a LONG-LONG-LONG time to learn the alphabet?
A: Because they spend years at C!
For another pirate riddle, check out Humphrey’s notebook on the Humphreyville section of my website. Our favorite furry friend blogs there.
And remember, behave yourselves, mateys, or ye be walkin’ the plank!