User blog comment:Mrcharlton/YJS books may not be canon/@comment-2107404-20110528205758/@comment-71.114.230.148-20110602144218

"- Well unless there's some line in POF I haven't read yet (I just got the book yesterday) that specifically states their first encounter was after Jack freed the slaves, there's nothing in DMC and AWE that would necessarily preclude that they couldn't have met in Jack's youth."

POF actually states that Jack and Tia Dalma met when Jack was very, very young, so this is consistent with the Jack Sparrow books. It's also said that she gave him the compass at that age, however, which is inconsistent with information given in the Visual Guide. (I don't remember if he had the compass in the YJS books or not.)

"--Well I haven't gotten to the part in POF where Jack and Davy strike their "deal", so I don't know if it specifically states that it was the first time they met. However since it isn't explicitly mentioned in DMC and AWE, the YJS series doesn't directly contradict the films in this regard."

A twenty-year-old Jack states in POF that he had not seen Davy Jones before the Brethren Court summoned him in that novel, which is not consistent with the YJS books.

For what it's worth, *generally* POF allows for the YJS books to have taken place. It's stated in that novel that Jack had been gone from Shipwreck Island in his teen years, had encountered a number of magical creatures already, and had met Tia Dalma early in life. I think there's also an intentional reference to his New Orleans adventure. However, it's not entirely consistent, as the situation with Jones shows. Crispin has mentioned that she was not required to keep strict continuity with the books.

"For all we know it could have been right after the adventures in LOTBC or even perhaps after Jack first lost the Pearl. "

The latter would be my guess, since it's almost entirely undocumented (so far!)