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I sternly cautioned my old friend Sophie Blackall that there would be no talking-like-pirates in our conversation about Ahoy!, the two-time Caldecott Medalist’s new picture book about an afternoon of imaginary play engaging a child, a parent, and a very nervous cat on the living room carpet the high seas. But talking with Sophie is itself an exercise in imaginative play, with no need for arrghs or mateys.| The Horn Book