Overview / 简介: |
"You know all about pirates. They were big guys with fancy hats, silk jackets, peg legs, and parrots cursing on their shoulders. They sailed big ships with brass guns and made lubbers walk the plank . . . right?
Wrong. . . . "
Pirates and piracy, buried treasure, and life on the high seas are brought to life in this colorful, appealing book.
Jan Adkin's talent for combining words, illustration, and design is uniquely well-suited to the world of Pirates: ships and seafaring, maps, weapons, larger than life characters and larger than life stories are vividly presented in Jan's signature, design-driven style. This large format, full color picture book presents pirate history and pirate lore, pirate ships and equipment, and pirate life. |
From Organization / 国外机构评价: |
| *Starred Review* Gr. 3-5. Can it be that walking the plank was a fictional punishment invented by illustrator Howard Pyle? In this appealing book, Adkins gives readers the lowdown on what life under the pirate flag was really like. After setting up the conventional portrait of swaggering, singing sailors in colorful duds, he replaces it with a more realistic picture of hard-working sailors who "might swashbuckle just a few hours each month" and bathed considerably less. Yet this realistic portrayal of pirates and their activities is even more intriguing than the romanticized version he debunks. Adkins strikes just the right note in the text, always informative and frequently entertaining as well. Bright with color washes, the excellent, energetic drawings show pirates engaged in a variety of activities, from pumping out the bilge to braiding each other's hair to using the open-air bathroom at the front of the ship. In a send-up of current book marketing, the back cover carries appreciative comments by the likes of Queen Elizabeth I and Leonardo da Vinci. Where pirate fever runs high this spirited presentation will find an enthusiastic audience. For more titles, see the Read-alikes, "Ship Ahoy!" |
Foreign Customer Review / 国外客户评价: |
| 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.
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About the Author / 作者介绍: |
| Jan Adkins was raised in West Virginia and Ohio, around Wheeling. He spent a lot of time wandering the woods around his home in St. Clairsville with a .22. Though a few squirrels and rabbits fell to his marksmanship, his usual quarry was dangerous cans and the occasional uppity stump.
His father was an inventive, clever, wise-cracking contractor, and certainly among the most irritating jackanapes in the Tri-State Area. His mother was a wholly unpredictable loon blessed with great beauty and a lovely Welsh soprano voice. He and his sister, Dr. Dr. Judy Porter (two degrees), remember childhood as one might recall a particularly confusing bagpipe concert.
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