PIRATES IN PETTICOATS Illustrated by Leonard Vosburgh David McKay 1963 ISBN# LC 63-16693 McKay hardcover

Non-fiction about women pirates, including Anne Bonney and Mary Read (see Ballad of the Pirate Queens), this was my very first book. But it wasn't the first time I'd written about women pirates. In fact I'd included two of them (Bonney and Read) in a little book I wrote in 7th grade. The greatest pirate in the world was a woman, Madame Ching, who lived at the beginning of the nineteenth century and commanded 2,000 boats and 70,000 men.

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Recording: "Pretty Peg" from PIRATES IN PETTICOATS was made into an audiotape, Houghton Mifflin 1973, "Adventure Stories 2: Stampedes and River Crossings."

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