SuitabookPirates
Terry Deary, Martin Brown
- Reading
- Dip into a topic that interests your reader, then compare the book’s account with familiar pirate stories; pause over the ranking and discuss what “wicked” means here.
- Themes
- Legend versus history: The book sets out to challenge familiar heroic pirate stories and reveal what it calls the historical truth. Its stated angle is corrective and historical, rather than simply repeating swashbuckling myths.
- Pirates and moral judgement: Readers are invited to choose the “baddest” pirates, and women pirates are described as just as wicked as men. The wording uses a comic, judgemental frame, but does not establish how the book weighs individual actions or gender.
- Worth knowing
- Punishments are among the subjects, so expect some attention to historical harm; how vividly these are described is not clear.