Bill Badger and the Pirates

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Bill Badger and the Pirates
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First edition cover
Author BB
Illustrator Denys Watkins-Pitchford
LanguageEnglish
Genre Fantasy novel
Publisher Hamish Hamilton
Publication date
1960
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages138
ISBN 0-416-26760-2
OCLC 12377884
Preceded byBill Badger's Winter Cruise 
Followed byBill 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 pen name "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 eight books over a decade from the first in 1957 (Wandering Wind, reprinted as Bill Badger and the Wandering Wind). The final in the series was Bill Badger and the Voyage to the World's End of 1969.

Adaptation

In 1970, the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation adapted Bill Badger and the Pirates into an 18-part marionette children's television programme entitled Dominik Dachs und die Katzenpiraten, in Swiss German. It was rebroadcast in March 2012.

Footnotes

  1. Short author profile Archived 18 April 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  2. explanation of pseudonym
  3. "Through the Eyes of a Child". Templar Knight. 3 April 2007. Archived from the original on 29 September 2007.