Talk Like a Pirate Day

Kathy Ishizuka -- School Library Journal, 9/19/2008 10:33:00 AM

Ahoy thar mateys! It’s International Talk Like a Pirate Day. And you thought we had forgotten? In a shoutout to our friends on Twitter, we pondered: “What would library folks say in pirate?” “@sljournal ahoy! thanks for the awesome reminder,” tweeted “librigirl,” Anna Warns of the Ada Community Library in Boise, ID. “Does this mean I can go around saying: read the dern book or else! Savy?”

“Shiver me timbers!, wrote Kim Wren, Librarian at McKelvey Elementary, St. Louis, MO (Kimwren1). “Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day Twitter Maties!!"

Finally, this gem from Molly Clark of Hastings-Mallory elementary school in Central Square NY (msmolly27): “How about: “Where arrrrrrgh the pirate books?"

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