How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen by Russell Hoban

How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen by Russell Hoban

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.

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

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).

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ISBN 13	9780224009997
ISBN 10	0224009990
Title	How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen
Author	Russell Hoban
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Penguin Random House Children's UK
Year published	1974-05-16
Number of pages	32
Prizes	Winner of Whitbread Book Awards: Children's Book Category 1974
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.