Everything I Know About Pirates

I bought this book as a joke for my husband who loves dressing up like a pirate for costume parties, so he could be more informed. It's hilarious and very entertaining! The illustrations are great too. The book answers all the questions you and your kids have about pirates. We enjoyed the book so much we bought another copy of it for a child we know and he loved it too. I would definitely recommend this book for both adults and children and guarantee you will laugh out loud when reading it.

I bought this book for my 5 year old and it is a little mature for him. There are a lot of words to read on each page and he started to lose interest. It is a hilarious book but better for my 7 and 9 year old.

Ohh, this is a wonderful book. So it might misrepresent actual facts about pirates-soooo what. Do you tell kids that Santas not real? Your kid can look at this book and distinquish fact from fiction. This book is fun, colorful, and creative.(wonderful for children) If your 5-yr old is looking at writing a thesis on the history of pirates for an early admittance to Harvard than buy a different book. Otherwise, this is a colorful piece of young literature for your child. I recommend Lichtenheld's other books too.

If all looking for is a few laughs, this book is worth reading.

However, I have a big problem with this kind of book for kids, and we are seeing more and more of this. Anyone who has kids knows that they usually take things at face value. If an adult or a book tells them something, they believe it.

This book is full of mis-information and jokes that only an adult or a young adult would understand. Younger children will be utterly perplexed by the information presented here.

More and more, I see so-called "children's" books that are marketed towards the ADULTS who read to their children (Hey, it's the adults who are shelling out the money, why not market to the adults?). The kids won't get the jokes. But at least the adults can be entertained while reading to their kids. This mentality is an insult to the child's intelligence. It assumes that the kids can't really process the real facts - that they wouldn't understand the truth.

If your child has a genuine interest in pirates, this book will only confuse them with information about pirates that is outright wrong. It is ANTI-educational.

If you don't find humor in this book, you just don't know how to laugh. For kids, there is nothing funnier than talking about boogers, B.O., and other stinky stuff. Adults sometimes loose site of the fun stuff in life...get this book and lighten up...you just might remeber what if feels like to be a kid again. If you are looking for hard facts about pirates, this is not the book for you (which, if you read the editor's review you would know). Tom Lichtenheld did a wonderful job incorporating a savy sense of humor, a rich vocabulary, and interesting illustrations into a book that kids will want to read.