Captain Captain is in a reading mood and has borrowed loads of books from the Floating Library. Cook and Line can hardly lift the pile of books, but Captain Captain orders them to read them all and find her the best story ever. But Cook and Line drop all the books in the ship's mess, getting them dirty. They take out all the pages to clean them, but then they can't remember which page goes in which book!

Captain Captain is determined that today is the last day they will be shipwrecked on the island. She has commanded her pirates to repair the Scarlet Squid so it can set sail once more, but their repair work soon leads to even more mess.