Little do they suspect that their ridiculous quest will lead them straight into the tentacles of the terrifying Pirate Cruncher, a monster who likes nothing better than to devour pirates for lunch!

Duddle’s (The Pirate Cruncher) rhymes have the buoyant, singsong quality of a sea shanty, but are weighed down by a fairly preachy plot. His cinematic and richly developed digital artwork ...

His first book, The Pirate Cruncher, was influenced from the photographs he had taken while working on board a sailing ship marking the 500th anniversary of explorer Christopher Columbus's ...

The Pirates Next Door is Duddle's second picture book, following The Pirate Cruncher. Melissa Cox, who is the children's book buyer for Waterstones, said: "The Pirates Next Door is full of the ...