Maggie and the Pirate is a 1979 children's picture book by American author and illustrator Ezra Jack Keats.

Maggie's pet cricket Niki, in the cage her father built, is stolen by someone calling himself the Pirate.

Maggie and her friends hunt all over the place, and finally she finds the Pirate's hide-out.

Kirkus Reviews found "Keats' scruffy urchins with their black dot eyes are jaunty, though a shade too cute, and his marbleized skies at dusk are a shade too turbulent and charged for the relatively anemic story."

"[1] Publishers Weekly thought "The Caldecott Medalist's typically vital art graces this tender tale of a girl who finds a new friend while searching for her kidnapped cricket.