The Night Pirates: Hooray! A pirate book with seafaring girls AND boys, and it's a sleepytime story to boot! When the den has been plundered and abandoned for a night's sleep below deck, break out this darling book. The pictures and text (complete with rhymes and wonderfully written questions that lead to the next page) are charmingly young, and the tale is pirate-y enough to delight but not so pirate-y as to seed nightmares in that sweet little mind. A lovely book to share together before you kiss your little one good night, right above the eyepatch.

Pirate Tattoos: Call us old-fashioned, but it still makes us double-take to see tattoos (of course temporary) on the soft little biceps of our preschoolers. But it is only one of the ways that our kids outpace us (don't get us started on how they know how to use our cell phones and our computers when we know they don't have their own), and at least these are temporary! The truth is that little ones love them. So, keep them under cover for picture day at school or major holidays, but oh what the delight on the face of your rugged pirate lover when these get broken out on any ol' Tuesday just for fun!