The Pirates Next Door
by Jonny Duddle
In Matilda’s neatly trimmed, child-free neighbourhood on Dull-on-Sea, the house next door is for sale, and she yearns for a family to move in. Then the Jolley-Rogers arrive, and the neighbourhood is not impressed with their messy garden, scruffy clothes, and their abundance of cannons and cutlasses; there’s constant hammering from their ship repairing - and they make the postman walk the plank!
Only Matilda is delighted: in Jim she’s found a friend and she alone is sad when they leave. Then the neighbours discover what the pirates have left behind – and Jim’s not forgotten Matilda either ...
Lots of humour; generous page spreads and fold-outs; a bold, cartoon-like style packed with detail; and of course, irrepressibly rakish pirates combine in this entertaining book about looking beyond appearances, which won the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2012.
Publisher: Templar Publishing
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Jonny Duddle
Jonny Duddle is a freelance illustrator and concept artist. As a leading computer games illustrator, his work has been used by the Sony, Warner Brothers, Vista and Universal companies, and he has won the Silver Award for Concept Art in Spectrum 14.
However, it was the year Jonny spent working on a square-rigger vessel, combined with his work as a concept artist on the Pirates of the Carribbean computer game, that inspired him to create his highly successful debut picture book - The Pirate Cruncher - for Templar and longlisted for 2011 Kate Greenaway Medal. Jonny also worked as a character designer for Aardman Animation's film The Pirates: An Adventure with Scientists, released in March 2012.
Jonny lives in North Wales with Jane, his wife, and their two children.
Johnny Duddle
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