The Witch's Dog and the Treasure Map

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Wilf, the witch's dog, is playing a pirate in the school musical. But when Sly Cat and Tricky Toad find a treasure map and cast a spell on it, Wilf and his friends find themselves face-to-face with some real pirates! Will they all have to walk the plank, or can Wilf come up with an idea to save them?

A childhood passion for books, radio and cinema set Frank Rodgers on the road to being a writer and artist. Today, he is the author/illustrator of almost fifty books for children, covering a wide age range from picture books through books for older readers to a novel for teenagers. THE BASICS Born- Holytown, Lanarkshire, 1944 Jobs- Art Teacher, driver, musician Lives- Glasgow First Book- Who's Afraid of The Ghost Train?, 1988 THE BOOKS As a child, Frank Rodgers was impressed by Frank Hampson's drawings for the original Dan Dare- Pilot of the Future strips and Mervyn Peake's illustrations for Treasure Island. At school, he was generally in the market to swap things for American comics. Inspired by radio shows like The Goons and Journey Into Space, he wrote plays and pressganged family and friends into the cast. Already, he was thinking up - and drawing - all kinds of characters. He studied Silversmithing and Jewellery at Glasgow School of Art and became an Art Teacher, in his spare time writing pop songs and two stage musicals. His first foray into publishing was as an illustrator of other writers' work, most notably Humphrey Carpenter's Mr Majeika books. In 1987, he left teaching to become a full-time writer and illus

Rodgers' warmly comic creation Wilf is destined to become a classic Herald Blending brilliantly paced storytelling with immensely appealing cartoon-style illustrations, these are exactly the kind of stories which inspire children to become readers Scotsman