Editorial Review

The Pirate Tales series includes six texts that tell the historical accounts of famous pirates in an engaging graphic comic format. The books tell the accounts of historical figures of Blackbeard, Sir Francis Drake, Anne Bonny, Mary Read, Henry Morgan, and Ching Shih. The digitally illustrated graphic stories tell the exciting plights of each pirate, while denoting key events and quotes from history through the use of red text. Additional text features such as a glossary of key academic vocabulary and weblinks to additional resources make these informational texts useful to units of study in History, English, or Geography subject areas across grade levels 4-12. The texts would be best paired with additional primary source documents and other informational texts that offer counter perspectives to the dominant colonial narratives presented. The graphic story format would make this history accessible to a wide range of readers.