Bill Badger and the Pirates is a novel with a canal-side setting for children, written 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 Napolean and his attempt to capture the barge Wandering Wind. The novel blends a stirring story with deeper moral issues.[3]
The series ran to nine books over a decade from the first in 1957 (Wandering Wind, reprinted as Bill Badger and the Wandering Wind).
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