is a series of five 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.
This book was originally released in September 2005 in the U.K. under the title, The Pirates!
in an Adventure with Scientists into a 3D stop-motion animated film internationally titled The Pirates!
Released on 28 March 2012, and directed by Peter Lord, the film features the voices of Hugh Grant, Martin Freeman, David Tennant, Salma Hayek, Jeremy Piven, and Imelda Staunton.