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Big hit with a seven year old, May 29, 2008
This review is from: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Timekeeper - Jack Sparrow #8 (Pirates of the Caribbean: Jack Sparrow) (Paperback)
A little boy who doesn't like to read much is entranced by these Jack Sparrow books. They're well written for kids with a sense of adventure. Like the Hardy Boys or a dozen other series before them, they deliver a consistent and familiar character in cleverly worked plots. The one thing I'd like to change would be to add few more illustrations. All you get here is the illustration on the cover.
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The Timekeeper - Jack Sparrow #8, September 1, 2007
This review is from: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Timekeeper - Jack Sparrow #8 (Pirates of the Caribbean: Jack Sparrow) (Paperback)
Both my son and I love this series. Even as a young man Captain Jack is true to himself. He hasn't changed a bit!!!!
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The Timekeeper, September 8, 2007
This review is from: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Timekeeper - Jack Sparrow #8 (Pirates of the Caribbean: Jack Sparrow) (Paperback)
I question whether Rob Kidd actually exists. For the Disney people to have come up with William Kidd would have been too obvious. So they came up with Robert, which is just as 17th century sounding a name as William.
This being said my nephew seems to love these books, which is good. He seems to have little interest in the true literary swashbuckling classic "Treasure Island," which is unfortunate. I do not think, however, that we should blame Disney and its team of Kidd writers for that...yet.
As I said, my nephew loves this series and while they are not R. L. Stevenson they are mildly entertaining and not long, so no a lot of time is consumed reading them. There are some definite holes in the plots and inconsistencies but they are not the kind of thing that 9-year-olds typically tend to overlook.
I would love to be reading something of more literary merit with my nephew but that is not to be, not at this time anyway. In the end it is not the worst book you could choose to bond with a child over.
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