(Jennings #1) Jennings goes to School '-' When Jennings and his friend Darbishire arrive for their first term at Linbury Court Preparatory School, as new boys, they soon discover how much they have to learn, especially when the other boys seem to be talking in a different language! Spivish ozard! But it is not long before Jennings becomes a celebrity, following an intrepid escape from the school grounds and a riotous attempt to enliven a fire practice, which leaves Old Wilkie literally climbing the walls! From then on, every time Jennings gives trouble the elbow, a new disaster trips him over. But only one thing really matters to J C T Jennings – his First Eleven debut. When the long-awaited match arrives, Jennings certainly uses his head. ".... when I was nine or ten I used to roll around on the floor laughing at the Jennings stories. By the time I was eleven I wanted to be Darbishire more than anything else in the world." --Alan Ayckbourn. "Anthony Buckeridge, creator of the funniest and best-written schoolboy books, bar none". ---Joseph Connolly in Modern Children's First Editions. [About the Author]: Born in 1912, Anthony Buckeridge was sent to boarding school in Sussex at the age of eight. He went on to university before working as a tutor in a preparatory school, and later became a fireman during the Second World War. Buckeridge was the first writer to use prep schools as a setting for his stories and, as such, is the creator of the infamous Jennings. The Jennings titles have sold over six million books worldwide."
