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!
- ISBN10 0099221713
- ISBN13 9780099221715
- Publish Date 20 May 1993 (first published 6 May 1988)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 6 August 2002
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Penguin Random House Children's UK
- Imprint Red Fox
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 32
- Language English