Pirates Past Noon is a children’s chapter book written by Mary Pope Osborne, and it is book number 4 in the “Magic Treehouse” series. The book is aimed at children between 5 and 9 years old, and is perfect for kids who have just learned to read. It also has beautiful pictures to help the reading along.
Annie and Jack have a magic treehouse filled with books! What makes the treehouse magic is that it can transport them into any picture in any book found in the treehouse library. In this book Annie and Jack go to a treasure island filled with gold thirsty pirates! The scary pirate captain, Cap’n Bones, wants Annie and Jack to find Kidd’s long lost treasure for him, and unless they do so he will keep them locked up in his pirate ship forever! How will Jack and Annie get out of this scrape?
This book is an easy read with short and precise sentences, no difficult words or long descriptions, and is perfect for young readers. It has mystery and adventure and all the traditional pirate ingredients needed to cook up a perfect story for little children; a parrot named Polly (who isn’t quite what she seems), a disheveled pirate crew, a treasure map, a Jolly Roger waving in the wind, a mean captain, a tropical treasure island and magic gold coins. I kept wishing, while reading this book, that I had a time machine so that I could give this book to my five year old self. She would have adored this book!
And definitely made her father build her a treehouse so that she could fill it with books and pretend that the treehouse could take her into to those books!
