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What If You Met A Pirate?

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This book provides great information about pirates, their lives, their ships, and their activities. The illustrations are detailed. It can be read to younger children a page or two at a time, but is more likely a book for older elementary students.

I read this book with my children and we all loved it. Guess what, pirates don't wear those silly hats and they hardly ever had peg legs! The parrots-- yes, they did have parrots. Full of fun and fantastic facts, great for any pirate fans. Wait till you see how they went to the bathroom!

If you meet the pirates in this book, you'll have to hold your nose. Real pirates rarely bathed. Readers are told to "forget the movies", and they receive an invitation into a sensual and realistic account of pirate life that takes them around the globe and across time. Two full-page illustrations of pirates (complete with labels) offer youngsters a chance to read and study pirate equipment and attire up close. The varieties of the remaining illustrations give a parent and child options for a reading strategy. (The material can be strong in some sections, and a reading strategy is a good idea.) The narrative is an eye opener - pirates never walked the plank, they desired small boats instead of larger vessels, they didn't often kill their prisoners, and they even sometimes dressed up as women in order to fool their victims into thinking they were passengers on a peaceful vessel. Parents should know that children not only learn the many names of pirates (e.g., seadogs, buccaneers, freebooters, and privateers), but they also learn (somewhat vividly)that attacking other ships (and robbing them) is violent work. The treasure in this book is the rich flow of historical information and facts that were once hidden from view by the popularity of the movie interpretation of the pirate. The weakness, however, is the appearance of some strong material that may be a concern for youngsters. If you go for the treasure, navigate your journey with caution.

Ahoy, swabbie! Be ye flummuxed about pirates, matey? Fear not! page after page yeilds facts and figures. Beware - this is real; some information may not be suitable for small fry.