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 ...

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!

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 ...

comedic protagonists of The Pirates Next Door and The Pirate Cruncher. Making the transition from these stylised characters to the realism of Harry, Ron and Hermione was not a challenge that ...

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 ...