The Old Tobacco Shop: A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure is a children's fantasy novel by William Bowen that was named a Newbery Honor book.

Toby warns young Freddie never to touch the jar shaped like a Chinese man's head because it is filled with magic tobacco.

Freddie can't resist, and after smoking the tobacco he finds himself and his friends on The Sieve, a leaky ship on the Spanish Main.

[2] In The Independent and the Weekly Review, Edmund Pearson reported that the word "tobacco" in the title caused one bookseller to consider the book unsuitable for children and refuse to carry it.

[5] Anne Carroll Moore agreed, writing in "High Lights in Children's Books" that "It will give pure joy to boys and their fathers".