Four Arts holds Story Time for band of preschool 'pirates'
The Society of the Four Arrrrrr-ts bid farewell to the season April 29 by welcoming a host of little pirates to the Society grounds for Preschool Story Time.
Arrrrrr!
It's a good thing the actual pirates of the 18th century, who terrorized the islands of the Caribbean, have been reduced by history's benevolent amnesia to flamboyant costumes and colorful ways of speech (shout-out to Johnny Depp's Capt. Jack Sparrow), because otherwise the gathering on the lawn at the Society might have been a very different affair.
Double arrrrr!
Instead, it was nothing but fun under the sun as the librarians who brought the young ones and their families to the lawn for Story Time concentrated on crafts, snacks and stories. After all, this is all about enticing kids to read, and helping out was children's author Robert L. Forbes, who donned his Blackbeard getup and read from "Twenty-Six Pirates," a book by Dave Horowitz that introduces the alphabet (that's why there are 26 of the fictional privateers) to beginning readers.
Here's hoping that amid all the Halloween eye patches, bandannas and tricorn hats that showed up at the Four Arts that day, more than a few readers were born. Maybe someday they'll have a few swashbuckling tales of their own to tell after sailing the oceans of literature.
This article originally appeared on Palm Beach Post: Society of the Four Arts closes season with pirate-themed Story Time
