RogerJollyPirate

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=//Roger the Jolly Pirate// by Brett Helquist=

Summary
The other pirates despise Roger's cheerfulness and ignorance of sailing terms. What will happen when the Admiral attacks their pirate ship?

Reviews

 * **Mrs. Cohen's class:** This book was humorous! We loved it! We liked the writing style. Roger was funny! He was a different kind of pirate. The Admiral turned out to be a coward. The pictures made each character look humorous. The setting is in line with the plot. There were some aspects of the book that we did not like so well. We felt the beginning was a bit boring. We would like more action. It was a bit childish for fifth graders. We think five- to nine-year-olds would enjoy this book.
 * **Mrs. Pratt-Dixon's class:** We liked the part where Roger was making a cake and the big KABOOM! We liked the setting, characters, and mood of the story. We liked the illustrations and the telling of the story.
 * **Ms. Porter's class:** This book had good illustrations. We thought the chicken blowing up was funny. It was cool how they thought that Roger was a skeleton or ghost. We liked that the sailors were scared. We liked the writing: Roger didn't know this from that or that from this. We liked how they set up the story and how the pirates cheered for Roger at the end. Most of the class liked that Roger was jolly, but some of the class wished Roger was mean. Some students thought it sounded weird that he was going to bake a cake. Some of us didn't like that the pirates didn't like Roger at first. Some students thought that Roger was pretty dumb not to realize that the cannon was a cannon. Some worried that Roger could have died from the blast.