A version of a popular folk-tale by the author of "Smart Girls" which won the 1994 Guardian Children's Fiction Award.;No one but his mother thinks that Jack will amount to much. As a child, he does nothing but eat four times a day and sleep in between, until at last, aged ten, "Idle" Jack is sent off to school. "Keep your eyes open, smile nicely and never disagree with anybody", his mother tells him, and it's advice that is to stand him in good stead through the amazing adventures that follow, as Jack becomes star pupil, goes out to work, attends his own funeral and finds himself suitor to a princess!;Robert Leeson is also the author of "It's My life" and "Jan Alone". He has also written the Grange Hill books and is an Eleanor Farjeon Award Winner for his services to children's literature.;Embellished with elements from a number of classic popular stories, this is a deliciously airy new version of a favourite folk-tale; By the author of the Grange Hill books and SMART GIRLS, shortlisted for the 1994 Guardian Children's Fiction Award; Robert Leeson is one of the best-known names in contemporary children's literature and an Eleanor Farjeon Award Winner.
- ISBN10 0744543320
- ISBN13 9780744543322
- Publish Date 1 April 1996 (first published 5 June 1995)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 28 September 2001
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Walker Books Ltd
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 80
- Language English