A classic tale of the triumph of fooling-around fun over humourless no-nonsense adult disapproval! Tom loves to fool around. He fools around with dropping things from bridges into rivers and he fools around with barrels in alleys. He fools around so much that his maiden aunt, Miss Fidget Wonkham-Strong (who wears an iron hat and takes no nonsense from anyone), sends for Captain Najork and his hired sportsmen to teach Tom a lesson. "Captain Najork," says Aunt Fidget Wonkham-Strong, "is seven feet tall, with eyes like fire ...
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A classic tale of the triumph of fooling-around fun over humourless no-nonsense adult disapproval! Tom loves to fool around. He fools around with dropping things from bridges into rivers and he fools around with barrels in alleys. He fools around so much that his maiden aunt, Miss Fidget Wonkham-Strong (who wears an iron hat and takes no nonsense from anyone), sends for Captain Najork and his hired sportsmen to teach Tom a lesson. "Captain Najork," says Aunt Fidget Wonkham-Strong, "is seven feet tall, with eyes like fire and a voice like thunder. He teaches fooling-around boys the lesson they so badly need, and it is not one that they soon forget." Captain Najork lays down a challenge: they will play womble, muck and speedball - in that order. And it turns out not to be Tom who gets taught a lesson after all!
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C.S. Lewis once said that if a book for children didn't also appeal to adults, it probably wasn't worth reading. If Russell Hoban wrote a book, I read it to my kids. If Quentin Blake illustrated a book, I read it to my kids (and also if he wrote it!). And then I'd look back through them on my own. Now I'm giving them as gifts to my own grandchildren. Greasy Bloaters? Aunt Cozysweet Bundlejoy? No great lesson, here--just a really fun book!
David I
Mar 13, 2012
Highly enjoyable for children and adults
... and takes a nicely relaxed view of striving. On the whole, it's against it and for enjoying yourself.
