Jennings Goes To School
10 best books like Jennings Goes To School (Anthony Buckeridge): Shade's Children, Down With Skool!, I Am Enough, Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe, Bless Me, Father, Last Chance to See: In the Footsteps of Douglas Adams, Alias: Ultimate Collection, Vol. 1, The Seeing Stone, The Damned Utd, The Cuckoo Clock
| Author | Garth Nix |
| ISBN | 0064471969 |
The Key to Survival Rests in the Hands of Shade's Children
If you’re lucky, you live to fight another day.
In a futuristic urban wasteland, evil Overlords have decreed that no child shall live a day past his fourteenth birthday. On that Sad Birthday, the child is the object of an obscene...
| Author | Geoffrey Willans |
| ISBN | 0006706193 |
Another foray into the category that is "Books I read as a child". I read this as part of "The Compleet Molesworth" which collects all four Molesworth books into one.
I wonder what a child of today would make of Molesworth? Even when I was growing up, in the 1970s, this 1950s depiction of boarding...
| Author | Grace Byers |
| ISBN | 0062667122 |
I Am Enough is the picture book everyone needs
This is a gorgeous, lyrical ode to loving who you are, respecting others, and being kind to one another—from Empire actor and activist Grace Byers and talented newcomer artist Keturah A. Bobo.
This is the perfect gift for mothers and...
Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
| Author | Bill Bryson |
| ISBN | 0380713802 |
Bill Bryson's first travel book, The Lost Continent, was unanimously acclaimed as one of the funniest books in years. In Neither Here nor There he brings his unique brand of humour to bear on Europe as he shoulders his backpack, keeps a tight hold on his wallet, and journeys from Hammerfest, the northernmost...
| Author | Neil Boyd |
| ISBN | 0445043644 |
The inspiration for the hit London Weekend Television series of the same name, this is one confessional you’ll want to make a point of visiting
Young Neil Boyd has just finished divinity school and has been newly ordained as a priest. His first post? St. Jude’s parish, a corner of London...
Last Chance to See: In the Footsteps of Douglas Adams
| Author | Mark Carwardine |
| ISBN | 0007290721 |
Join Britain's best-loved wit and raconteur, Stephen Fry, as he follows in his great friend Douglas Adams' footsteps with zoologist Mark Carwardine, in search of some of the rarest and most threatened animals on Earth. In the 1980s celebrated writer Douglas Adams teamed up with zoologist Mark Carwardine...
Alias: Ultimate Collection, Vol. 1
| Author | Brian Michael Bendis |
| ISBN | 0785137327 |
¡¡Me ha gustado muchísimoooooo!!! No me esperaba algo así, este cómic acierta en todo lo que falla la serie de televisión.
Jessica es aquí realmente carismática al mismo tiempo que realista y no la alcohólica amargada de la serie (que bien, pero en serio, a veces me cansa), los casos son...
| Author | Kevin Crossley-Holland |
| ISBN | 0752844296 |
The year is 1199, the place the Welsh Marches. Young Arthur de Caldicot practises his tilting and archery, learns to be a dutiful page to his father, and waits impatiently to grow up and become a knight. One day his father's friend Merlin gives him a shining black stone. When Arthur starts to see stories...
| Author | David Peace |
| ISBN | 0571224334 |
Overachieving and eccentric football manager Brian Clough was on his way to take over at the country's most successful, and most reviled football club: Leeds United, home to a generation of fiercely competitive but ageing players. The battle he'd face there would make or break the club - or him.
David...
| Author | Ennis Graham |
| ISBN | 1594625425 |
I didn't read this edition but a 1930 one with Walter Crane Illustrations (of which I would've liked more).
It was neither as preachy as much Victorian children's literature nor as exciting as the best. There were some obvious didactic efforts and some interesting or pretty scenes, but overall...
| Author | J.P. Martin |
| ISBN | 1590172396 |
If you think Babar is the only storybook elephant with a cult following, then you haven’t met Uncle, the presiding pachyderm of a wild fictional universe that has been collecting accolades from children and adults for going on fifty years. Unimaginably rich, invariably swathed in a magnificent...
| Author | Richmal Crompton |
| ISBN | 0006903975 |
This is the second unabridged release of the classic William series. It was on Christmas Day that the centipede appeared on Aunt Evangeline's plate, the library clock was found mysteriously dismantled, and the conjuring trick with the egg went disastrously wrong. But as William's Aunt Lucy told him,...
| Author | Richmal Crompton |
| ISBN | 0333534085 |
There were some quite interesting things to do outside. In the road there were puddles, and the sensation of walking through a puddle, as every boy knows, is a very pleasant one. The hedges, when shaken, sent quite a shower bath down upon the shaker, which also is a pleasant sensation. The ditch was full...
| Author | Will Adams |
| ISBN | 0007286317 |
Fact collides with fiction in Will Adams third pulse-pounding adventure featuring the enigmatic Daniel Knox. Twenty years after vanishing without a trace, French archaeologist Roland Petitier makes a dramatic reappearance at a major Athens conference, promising an astonishing find - the legendary...
| Author | Neil Boyd |
| ISBN | 0552112712 |
Laugh...
| Author | Kelly Sue DeConnick |
As I mentioned on my Saga #25 Review, I fucking love Wednesdays, also known as new-comic-book-day.
Firstly--and yes, I realize I'm pushing this hard, but it's only because I feel vehemently about this issue--you should head over and check out my Bitch Planet #1 Review where I rant at and berate...
| Author | Tab Kimpton |
| ISBN | 0957040385 |
Greetings explorers, and welcome to Alphabet Soup Land!
Want to learn about the not-so-invisible Bisexual Unicorn? The secrets of the Asexual Succubus? Or the previously unfathomable fathoms of the Genderqueer Merperson? If so, you‘re in the right place!
Packed full with comics of mythical...
Celebrated Ecuadorian author Gabriela Alemán's first work to appear in English: a noir, feminist eco-thriller in which venally corrupt politicians and greedy land speculators finally get their just comeuppance!
In the squalid settlement of Poso Wells, women have been regularly disappearing...
