YCC and SeaBritain 2005

Pirates, smugglers and castaways

 

This is always a popular subject, which perfectly complements The Reading Voyage and young people's journeys into the wonderful world of books. Find out about pirates through the ages - what did they really do? Make up your own pirate articles (captain's rules for the ship); see if your museum has wreckers' lamps, old brandy casks, guns and pistols - or doubloons and pieces of eight.

tes, Smugglers, Wreckers and Castaways!

Books

Non-Fiction

Meg Clibbon - Imagine you're a pirate
Rebecca Gilpin - Pirate things to make and do
Colin and Jacqui Hawkins - Pirates!
Andrew Langley - 100 things you should know about pirates
Richard Platt - Pirate (Eyewitness Guide)
Chris Powling - Pirate

 

Pirates: Fiction
Tony Bradman - The Kingfisher Treasury of Pirate Stories
Colin McNaughton - Jolly Roger!
Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island
Richard Platt and Chris Riddell - Pirate diary: The Journal of Jake Carpenter

 

Wrecks and Wreckers: Fiction

Will Gatti - Sea Dance
Iain Lawrence - The Wreckers
Michael Morpurgo - The Wreck of the Zanzibar
Michael Morpurgo - When the Whales Came

Non-fiction

Mark Dubowski - Titanic: the disaster that shook the world (Eyewitness)
Richard Platt - Shipwreck
David Stewart - Avoid sailing on the Titanic!

Smugglers
John Meade - Falkner Moonfleet
Iain Lawrence - Smugglers

 

Castaways

Tim Bowler - Apocalypse
Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe
Michael Morpurgo - Kensuke's Kingdom

 

Websites

There is a useful site called 'Pirates, Fact and Legend' which gives lots of interesting historical information, including biographies of famous pirates, life at sea - and how many pieces of eight you'd get in compensation for a lost arm or leg!

The Pirates' Hold is a fascinating and pretty wide collection of information and examples of maps, documents, books, films, biographies, pirate flags and a piracy timeline.