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HOW TOM BEAT CAPTAIN NAJORK AND HIS HIRED SPORTSME 
Author:   Russell Hoban  
Illustrator:   Quentin Blake    Illustrator info     
RRP:   $24.95
Online Price :  $22.46
10+ Copy Price :  $21.21         
Format:   Hardback 
Type of Book:   Overseas Picture Book 
ISBN:   9781406343830
Published:   11/09/2013
Status:   Indent/Backordered
This title can be ordered but is not in stock in Australia. We can order stock from our Overseas suppliers, 2-4 weeks approximate delivery time depending on availability.


DESCRIPTION:

This is 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! This title was a HUGE favourite of thousands of '70s and '80s kids who are now book-buying parents. It deals with an eternally popular theme of a young hero's resourceful defiance of a despotic figure of authority. It is laugh-out-loud funny no matter how many times you re-read it. It is a jacketed edition.



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