Grandma and the Pirates

Grandma and the Pirates

An interesting adventure story
on the sea!Summary:
  The aroma of Grandma's wonderful noodle pudding attracts three
hungry pirates. As the three savage men can't cook, they are hungry for the nice food. They go ashore, walk into Grandma's house, eat all of the pudding,
and sail away with Grandma and the parrot Ollie/Oliver!
  Grandma's granddaughter, Melissa, comes aboard the ship and tries to rescue her grandma and the parrot. It takes quite a while though. But in the end she outsmarts the three greedy pirates. And Hurrah! They have the pirates' big ship, too. 

Language: 
a rich vocabulary of food:
strawberry shortcake, mashed potatoes, pickled beets, and so on...
some useful words connected with ship:
deck, anchor, sail, abroad, and so on...

Interesting sentences:
1. Then, as if that wan't savage enough, they popped Grandma
    and Oliver inot a pirate sack too.   
3. He laughed so hard that he woke himself up. 
3. Another time Grandma thought they should hide in a treasure
   chest and get carred ashore. Thhat might have worked if 
   only Oliver hadn't sneezed!