Your dad goes to the office everyday to work, right? Just suppose he doesn’t. What if he’s really a pirate?

That’s the premise of this picture book, originally published in Austria as Mein Papa ist Pirat. At first the little boy doesn’t believe his dad, especially when he uses left and right instead of port and starboard. But the more papa reveals, the more persuasive he becomes. Still…what will convince his son he truly is a pirate?

This is a delightful “what if” story to capture a young pirate’s imagination. Treasures abound in the colorful illustrations that imitate not the reality, but what a child imagines. Pirate fathers and their sons, or daughters, will enjoy reading this book together.