Bill Badger and the Pirates
 First edition cover | |
| Author | BB |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Denys Watkins-Pitchford |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Fantasy novel |
| Publisher | Hamish Hamilton |
Publication date | 1960 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 138 |
| ISBN | 0-416-26760-2 |
| OCLC | 12377884 |
| Preceded by | Bill Badger's Winter Cruise |
| Followed by | Bill Badger's Finest Hour |
Bill Badger and the Pirates is a children's novel with a canal-side setting, written and illustrated in 1960 by the prolific author Denys Watkins-Pitchford,[1] who wrote under the pseudonym "BB".[2]
The plot revolves around the release from prison of Bill Badger's sworn enemy, the cat Napoleon, and his attempt to capture Bill's barge, Wandering Wind. The novel blends a stirring story with deeper moral issues.[3]
Bill Badger and the Pirates is the third in the Bill Badger series, which ran to nine books over a decade from the first in 1957 (Wandering Wind, reprinted as Bill Badger and the Wandering Wind).
Footnotes
- ^ Short author profile Archived April 18, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ explanation of pseudonym
- ^ "Through the Eyes of a Child". Templar Knight. April 3, 2007. Archived from the original on September 29, 2007.
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