Pirate's Log: A Handbook for Aspiring Swashbucklers

by Avery Monsen, Jory John, Gilbert Ford (Illustrator)

Hoist the anchor and get ready for high seas adventure! This arrr-inspiring journal provides aspiring pirates games, puzzles, challenges, and advice on everything from swabbing the deck to walking the plank and avoiding scurvy. And for studying treasure maps after the lights go out, this journal also includes a reading light for secret journaling below deck!

172 pages, Hardcover

First published August 27, 2008

About the author

Avery Monsen is a writer, actor, and artist who lives in Los Angeles. He illustrated and co-authored the national bestseller, All My Friends Are Dead, as well as I Feel Relatively Neutral About New York and K is For Knifeball. He’s also written for the television shows, Billy On The Street and Trip Tank. His writing and drawings have been published in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The Believer, and several newspapers around the country, and he was recently named one of the New Faces of Comedy at the 2017 Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal. As an actor, he’s appeared on 30 Rock, The Tonight Show, High Maintenance, Maron, Adam Ruins Everything, and Alexa & Katie.

Reviews

[Lauri Meyers · Rating 4 out of 5]

Blimey! I'm suspecting the landlubbers that wrote this diary might not be real pirates at all! But I can be sure as the north star in the sky that they had a mighty good time writing this. Lots of pirate fun for curious kids.

[Pirate · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book for the wee crew. Creative writing and imagination exercises are inside, along with a cute little reading light/periscope. I'd peg it best for the elementary school set, but your silly teenager or adult friend just may enjoy it as well.

[Anthony · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great, very funny, and wonderfully clever kids book... but I can see why these guys write "kids books" for adults now. Most of the humor in this book is probably lost on kids.