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 ...

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 ...

A week ago, The Pirate Bay was raided and shut down. At this point, with no resurrection apparently forthcoming, it looks like it might be dead forever. This hasn't stopped fake sites from popping ...

Sean Kingsley and Rex Cowan’s “The Pirate King,” like all good historical mysteries, begins with archival drama. In 1978 the maritime historian Zélide Cowan (the wife of Rex) came across an ...