An imaginative story about the value of play.
And it turns out not to be Tom who gets taught a less.
Captain Najork lays down a challenge: they will play womble, muck and speedball - in that order.
He teaches fooling-around boys the lesson they so badly need, and it is not one that they soon forget.
Captain Najork, says Aunt Fidget Wonkham-Strong, is seven feet tall, with eyes like fire and a voice like thunder.
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.
He fools around with dropping things from bridges into rivers and he fools around with barrels in alleys.
Tom loves to fool around.
The hilarious, classic tale about the triumph of fooling-around over humorless, no-nonsense, adult disapproval Written and illustrated by two masters of children\'s literature.
And it turns out not to be Tom who gets taught a lesson after all A very funny collaboration for children by Russell Hoban and Quentin Blake for kids who love to laugh (and the story contiunes in A Near Thing for Captain Najork).
Captain Najork lays down a challenge: they will play womble, muck and speedball - in that order.
He teaches fooling-around boys the lesson they so badly need, and it is not one that they soon forget.
Captain Najork, says Aunt Fidget Wonkham-Strong, is seven feet tall, with eyes like fire and a voice like thunder.
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.
He fools around with dropping things from bridges into rivers and he fools around with barrels in alleys.
Tom loves to fool around.
The hilarious, classic tale about the triumph of fooling-around over humorless, no-nonsense, adult disapproval Written and illustrated by two masters of children\'s literature.
A very funny collaboration for children by Russell Hoban and Quentin Blake. . .
However, when it comes to fooling around, Tom doesn\'t fool around, and his skills prove so polished that the results of the contest are completely unexpected.
So one day this fearsome lady decides to teach Tom a lesson and summons Captain Najork and his Hired Sportsmen to play womble, muck and sneedball.
Tom likes fooling around and is rather good at it, much to the annoyance of his Aunt Fidget Wonkham-Strong.
An imaginative story about the value of play
