How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen

Name: How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen
Brand: Walker Books Ltd
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Paperback | English

By (author): Russell Hoban

Illustrated by: Quentin Blake

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! See more

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Format: Paperback
Weight: 186g
Dimensions: 210 x 280mm
Publication Date: 03 Apr 2014
Publisher: Walker Books Ltd
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Age Group: Ages 5-7
ISBN13: 9781406349528

About Russell Hoban

Russell Hoban is the renowned author of many famous novels including Turtle Diary and Riddley Walker which won the John W. Campbell Award for science fiction. He also wrote over 50 children''s books including such classics as The Mouse and His Child Bedtime for Frances The Sea-Thing Child and most recently Rosie''s Magic Horse. Born in Pennsylvania in 1925 he moved in 1969 to London where he lived until his death in 2011. Quentin Blake is one of the world''s foremost illustrators particularly renowned for his collaboration with writers such as Russell Hoban Michael Rosen Joan Aiken and Roald Dahl. His books have won numerous awards including the Whitbread Prize the Kate Greenaway Medal and the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration. In 1999 he was appointed the first ever Children''s Laureate in 2005 was created a CBE and in 2013 received a knighthood for his services to illustration. He lives in London SW5.