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

Gideon Defoe

Gideon Defoe is a British writer and author of The Pirates!, a series of comedy books following a group of pirates on their adventures.His publisher claims that Gideon started writing stories about pirates to convince a young lady to leave her boyfriend for him .-Bibliography:*The Pirates!...

 and was published starting in 2004 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd is a British publisher of fiction and reference books. It is a division of the Orion Publishing Group.-History:...

. 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
   The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists
   The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists is the first book in The Pirates! series by Gideon Defoe dealing with a hapless crew of pirates. It was published in 2004 by Orion Books .-Plot:...
   
   (2004)
2. The Pirates! in an Adventure with Whaling
   The Pirates! in an Adventure with Whaling
   The Pirates! in an Adventure with Whaling is the second book in The Pirates! series by Gideon Defoe, published in 2005 by The Orion Publishing Group....
   
   (2005)
3. The Pirates! in an Adventure with Communists
   The Pirates! in an Adventure with Communists
   The Pirates! in an Adventure with Communists is the third book in The Pirates! series by Gideon Defoe to feature his hapless pirate crew...
   
   (2006)
4. The Pirates! in an Adventure with Napoleon
   The Pirates! in an Adventure with Napoleon
   The Pirates! In an Adventure with Napoleon is the fourth novel in Gideon Defoe's The Pirates! series. It was released in May 2008.Here the Pirate Captain quits pirating, after losing the Pirate of the Year award, to become a bee keeper on St...
   
   (2008)
5. The Pirates! in an Adventure with the Romantics (2012)

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

Aardman Animations

Aardman Animations, Ltd., also known as Aardman Studios, or simply as Aardman, is a British animation studio based in Bristol, United Kingdom. The studio is known for films made using stop-motion clay animation techniques, particularly those featuring Plasticine characters Wallace and Gromit...

 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

Peter Lord

Peter Lord CBE is a British film producer, director and co-founder of the Academy award-winning Aardman Animations studio, an animation firm best known for its clay animated films and shorts, particularly those featuring plasticine duo Wallace & Gromit.-Biography:In cooperation with David...

, the director of Chicken Run

Chicken Run

Chicken Run is a 2000 British stop-motion animation film made by the Aardman Animations studios, the production studio of the Oscar-winning Wallace and Gromit films...

.