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An award-winning, comical pirate pictue book adventure! Nine-year-old Roger is a miserable landlubber with a bad-tempered mother. So when he sees a chance to join some pirates, he jumps at the chance - or he would have done if the pirates hadn't already bagged him! The next thing he knows, Roger is on board the Golden Behind with a bunch of the smelliest, hairiest, scariest pirates the world has ever seen - but will they be a match for Roger's mum?; Winner of the British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year Award.; Shortlisted for the Smarties Book Prize, the Kurt Maschler Award and the National Art Library Awards for Illustration.