Bill Badger and the Pirates
First edition cover | |
Author | BB |
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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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