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Author: David L. Harrison ,
Dan Burr
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
Imprint: Astra Publishing House
Dimensions:
Width: 28.00cm
, Height: 1.00cm
, Length: 28.00cm
Weight: 0.582kg
ISBN: 9781590784556
ISBN 10: 1590784553
Pages: 48
Publication Date: 18 September 2008
Audience:
Children/juvenile
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Children / Juvenile
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Children / Juvenile
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Enjoyably rich with popular pirate argot, begging to be read aloud in one's best buccaneering voice. -- Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
"""Enjoyably rich with popular pirate argot, begging to be read aloud in one's best buccaneering voice."" --""Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books"" """"This is a good choice for reading aloud in classrooms studying the topic, or for children interested in the real world of pirates.""""--School Library Journal ""As Burr's deeply realistic and heavily detailed paintings soon attest, piracy makes for exciting subject matter. Twenty poems in this collection detail every aspect of those scurvy lads' lives. . . . Child readers will come for the subject matter, and they'll stay for the lush art.""""--Kirkus Reviews"" ""Large realistic paintings work with 20 narrative poems to describe the nitty-gritty details of pirate life. . . . Burr's illustrations do a find job of conveying the emotions of each poem and of showing the details of dress and shipboard life. An afterword further explains the unromantic world of piracy. This is a good choice for reading aloud in classrooms studying the topic, or for children interested in the real world of pirates.""--""School Library Journal"" ""Child readers will come for the subject matter, and they'll stay for the lush art. A section at the end offers additional information on what an average pirate's life would have been like. (Bibliography)"" --Kirkus Reviews ""Enjoyably rich with popular pirate argot, begging to be read aloud in one's best buccaneering voice."" --Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books ""This is a good choice for reading aloud in classrooms studying the topic, or for children interested in the real world of pirates.""--School Library Journal"
""Enjoyably rich with popular pirate argot, begging to be read aloud in one's best buccaneering voice."" --""Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books"" """"This is a good choice for reading aloud in classrooms studying the topic, or for children interested in the real world of pirates.""""--School Library Journal ""As Burr's deeply realistic and heavily detailed paintings soon attest, piracy makes for exciting subject matter. Twenty poems in this collection detail every aspect of those scurvy lads' lives. . . . Child readers will come for the subject matter, and they'll stay for the lush art.""""--Kirkus Reviews"" ""Large realistic paintings work with 20 narrative poems to describe the nitty-gritty details of pirate life. . . . Burr's illustrations do a find job of conveying the emotions of each poem and of showing the details of dress and shipboard life. An afterword further explains the unromantic world of piracy. This is a good choice for reading aloud in classrooms studying the topic, or for children interested in the real world of pirates.""--""School Library Journal"" ""Child readers will come for the subject matter, and they'll stay for the lush art. A section at the end offers additional information on what an average pirate's life would have been like. (Bibliography)"" --Kirkus Reviews ""Enjoyably rich with popular pirate argot, begging to be read aloud in one's best buccaneering voice."" --Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books ""This is a good choice for reading aloud in classrooms studying the topic, or for children interested in the real world of pirates.""--School Library Journal
This is a good choice for reading aloud in classrooms studying the topic, or for children interested in the real world of pirates. --School Library Journal
Large realistic paintings work with 20 narrative poems to describe the nitty-gritty details of pirate life. . . . Burr's illustrations do a find job of conveying the emotions of each poem and of showing the details of dress and shipboard life. An afterword further explains the unromantic world of piracy. This is a good choice for reading aloud in classrooms studying the topic, or for children interested in the real world of pirates. -- School Library Journal As Burr's deeply realistic and heavily detailed paintings soon attest, piracy makes for exciting subject matter. Twenty poems in this collection detail every aspect of those scurvy lads' lives. . . . Child readers will come for the subject matter, and they'll stay for the lush art. --Kirkus Reviews This is a good choice for reading aloud in classrooms studying the topic, or for children interested in the real world of pirates. --School Library Journal Child readers will come for the subject matter, and they'll stay for the lush art. A section at the end offers additional information on what an average pirate's life would have been like. (Bibliography) -- Kirkus Reviews Enjoyably rich with popular pirate argot, begging to be read aloud in one's best buccaneering voice. -- Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
Author Information
David L. Harrison wrote the acclaimed poetry collection Somebody Catch My Homework and many other award-winning books for children, including picture books, poetry, and nonfiction books. He lives in Springfield, Missouri. Dan Burr has been painting book jackets for years. He lives in Tetonia, Idaho.
