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Title: HOW TOM BEAT CAPTAIN NAJORK AND HIS HIRED SPORTSMEN
By: Russell Hoban, Quentin Blake (Illus)
Format: Hardback

List price: £12.99


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ISBN 10: 1406343838
ISBN 13: 9781406343830
Publisher: WALKER BOOKS LTD
Pub. date: 22 October, 2013
Pages: 32
Description: A classic tale of the triumph of fooling-around fun over humourless no-nonsense adult disapproval!
Synopsis: 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!
Publication: UK
Imprint: Walker Books Ltd
Returns: Returnable
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