Book Description

Avast ye landlubbers! Meet Captain Kidd, Blackbeard, and other famous pirates and buccaneers--including a few swashbuckling women! Learn everything about pirate life, from the clothes they wore and the ships they sailed to the fate of those who were caught. Make your own treasure map, pirate flag, and ship's biscuits. Packed with facts, photographs, and drawings, this is the essential handbook for any rogue-to-be.Will fascinate and delightaspiring young pirates. --School Library Journal ... Read more

Reviews (1)

This is a great book to start learning about pirates.
I like this book because it teaches you how to make pirate stuff and it tells you what pirates were really like. It has lots of good pictures of their weapons, maps, flags and clothes. It also describes the different types of pirates. Errol Smith, 8, Montague,NJ ... Read more

Reviews (1)

Treasure of Cozy Cove
This is a wonderful adventure book that my sons have loved for years. The illustrations are wonderful and it is a terrific children's book! ... Read more

Book Description

Open up and say Arrgghhh! Full-color photography is paired with clearly written text to build a foundation for advanced exploration, helping show children a stunning new view of the world.
Offering a unique introduction to nature through powerful visuals, the Eye Wonder reference series was developed for children ready for first books about the natural world. Full-color photography is paired with clearly written text to build a foundation for advanced exploration, helping show children a stunning new view of the world. ... Read more

Reviews (1)

Ships Ahoy.
This short (only 32 pages) and well illustrated book provides an incredible wealth of detail about pirates. The book briefly discusses such famous pirates as Blackbeard, Henry Avery, and William Kidd. The book gives a brief history about pirates and it discusses famous women pirates, the reasons why people became pirates, different types of pirate flags, usual pirate possessions, pirate punishments, famous movie pirates, and the differences between pirates of the past and modern day pirates. The book has lots of photographs and illustrations and contains many interesting facts. For example, pirates rarely made anyone walk the plank and instead perfered to throw people down onto the deck from high off the rigging. This is a great little book to give to anyone interested in pirates as well as a useful tool for anyone interesting in learning about pirates. ... Read more

Reviews (1)

Revenge at Ryan's Reef
I am in second grade and I choose this book for a book report. I really enjoyed this book because I like pirate's story. The story is about a little boy with a big heart living on a good pirate ship with his family. In the story he wants to help raise money for his granny who lives in a Retirement home for old pirates. The tresures he finds to help her are stolen and he goes after the thiefs to get them back. Happy ending. ... Read more

Book Description

Ahoy me hearties! So you're thinking of running away to experience life on a gorgeous pirate galleon. Well, before you go be warned -a pirate's life isn't all fish and chips and treasure troves.

From parrot droppings to woodworm in the wooden leg, a life on the ocean wave wasn't all, plain sailing, you know. For starters there were the disease-ridden ships and the disgusting food. Not to mention all the other pirates out there just itching to try out their latest tortures.

John Farman leaves no stone unturned in this uproariously funny study of the rather unsavoury characters who terrorize the high seas.