The Pirates!

The Pirates! is a series of four comedy books following a group of pirates on their adventures. It is written by British author Gideon Defoe and was published starting in 2004 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. The fifth book The Pirates! in an Adventure with the Romantics is coming in 2012, and will be published by Bloomsbury Publishing.

Books

1. The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists (2004)
2. The Pirates! in an Adventure with Whaling (2005)
3. The Pirates! in an Adventure with Communists (2006)
4. The Pirates! in an Adventure with Napoleon (2008)
5. The Pirates! in an Adventure with the Romantics (2012)^[2]

Characters

• The Pirate Captain is vain, self-deluded and mostly incompetent as a pirate and as a sea captain, but he's ultimately kind-hearted and very much respected by his crew. He doesn't appear to possess any of the stereotypical pirate accoutrements, though he dresses in the traditional manner, and much is made of his luxuriant beard. He is said to have a "pleasant, open face", though he is quite successful at terrifying non-pirates.
• Black Bellamy, the Pirate Captain's cunning and black-hearted arch nemesis.
• Peg-Leg Hastings
• Hook-for-a-hand pirate
• The pirate with a scarf is reliable, loyal, and he has a scarf.
• The pirate with gout
• The pirate in green is an everyman. He is also quite tidy.
• The albino pirate's main characteristic is being pale. But he is also very enthusiastic. The albino pirate uses more exclamation marks than any of the other pirates.
• The pirate in red is quite surly. He is also a bit of a show-off.
• The surprisingly curvaceous pirate
• The pirate who likes kittens and sunsets
• The burly pirate
• The pirate with an accordion
• Jennifer, a sensible Victorian Lady who becomes an invaluable member of the crew.

Film adapation

Aardman Animations is adapting the first two books for a 3-D stop-motion animated film internationally titled The Pirates! Band of Misfits, set for release on March 28, 2012, and directed by Peter Lord, the director of Chicken Run.^[3]

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