I loved this bedtime swashbuckler!  This clever and richly illustrated picture book captures the imagination as we follow little Charlotte Jane’s early years as the young child of a pirate couple.  Well loved by doting parents, Charlotte lives life to the fullest squeezing all the juice out of every day.  However, she declares, “bedtime is not juicy”.  So after staying up all night, she’s exhausted and can’t swash buckle at all!  Her Mom and Dad help her look for her oomph but it is no where to be found until Charlotte finally crawls into her hammock for some dreamy adventures.  The illustrations are gorgeous and detailed, causing me to pause to look carefully at each page to soak it all in.  The perfect bed time story book for young elementary students, I will recommend this one at check out time.