The first page of this book shocked me. I was beginning to become angry after reading all the made up things kids believe about pirates. I thought this book was supposed to be true and factual. It was not until I turned to the second page and began reading on that I found out it explained itself greatly and answered the many misconceptions of pirates. This is a great example of not judging a book by its first page. Anyways as I continued to read I began to like this book. I like how it is written with the questions at the top of the page. This question/ansewr format it very interesting and this book could be a great resource for children. If they had a specific question they could turn to the page and have their question answered. This was my main draw to the book. Another great thing about this book was the illustrations. They were very descriptive and informative. This book was the most informative thing that I have read since we began this unit on pirates. The questions that we were asked to answer during the pirate workshop could have been answered from this book alone. I like the way it gives great detail about their ships, lives, and attacks. From many of the internet sites you only got a piece of information that didn’t really explain anything in detail. This book filled in the gaps for me and helped me clear many of the misconceptions that I previously held.
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Yay informational books! Can you expand on some of the misconceptions that were clarified?