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Victricia Malicia, Book-Loving Buccaneer

I like it! I like it!  The illustrations are bright and engaging and humorous.  The rhyming story tells of a young girl growing up in a family of pirates, yet longing for the life of a landlubber.  (I particularly like the side-step of stereotypes that makes her mom the Pirate Captain and her dad the cook.) Despite not quite fitting in on board, Victricia’s eccentricities manage to help save the ship from the clutches of a sea serpent, and she is rewarded by finally getting her wish of being put ashore, where she opens a bookstore (no pillaging or plundering books).  Her family and friends come by to visit, and become “the world’s first seafaring librarians.”