The Kettleship Pirates

Inventiveness is once again in evidence in this, the second adventure of the Mouse family. Here an old aluminium kettle provides the vehicle for Pip's pirate adventure with Captain Rat and his merry crew. Clever use of speechbubbles establishes the individual characters and the whole is full of both visual and verbal wit. A rollicking good yarn for solo readers who will doubtless enjoy poring over Peppe's detailed pen and wash pictures and an added interest comes from the photograph of the actual model the artist used as the basis for his illustrations given in the front of the book.