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School Library Journal
Reviewed on August 1, 2012 | Nonfiction
Gr 2-5–From the smiling, rollicking kids on the cover laying claim to a beachful of treasure to the shipload of fierce, sneering, plundering, cutlass-waving, face-making buccaneers, boastful of their scurrilous behavior, these pirates are a motley group. In 19 poems, they teach "Pirate Patter" and punishment and descri...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on September 1, 2012
Florian provides young pirate lovers with a profusion of arrrghs and ahoy mateys, enough to keep their piratephilia alive for a long time. Using stereotypical pirate-speak, each poem explores a familiar aspect of pirate lore and takes it to a new level of rhythm and rhyme, usually with a final line calculated to evoke a chuckle. In "Pirates Wear Patches," rhyming...Log In or Sign Up to Read More