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Down with Skool! (Paperback)

by Geoffrey Willans (Author), Geoffrey Willians (Author), Ronald Searle (Illustrator)
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  • Paperback: 112 pages
  • Publisher: Pavilion Books; New edition edition (3 Sep 1992)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1851459553
  • ISBN-13: 978-1851459551
  • Product Dimensions: 19 x 12.2 x 1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 759,912 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Imported humor from Britain, this makes the most of the "boners" and the attitudes of one "nigel molesworth, the curse of st custard's" and carries on from his photograph album, to his thorts on head beaks, (or the enemy and are they nesessessary?), on their subjects (those weedy things, English, Peotry, Latin, French, Maths and Singing; to his schedules for avoiding lessons and some passing chizzes on parents. The finis is on skool food, which includes etiquette and a nightmare on the revolt of the prunes. Everybod?? may not think this is WIZZ but it does go to prove: BOYS triumphant agane and the only good things about skool are BOYS. ??Searle's wobbly drawings hand in glove this awkward age. (Kirkus Reviews)


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A story featuring the trials and tribulations of Nigel Molesworth at St Custards school. Using his own brand of outrageous spelling, it includes his advice on how to cope with "bulies, snekes, grown-ups and other chizzes".

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5.0 out of 5 stars Simply the best, as any fule kno, 14 May 2009
By Paul Magnussen (Campbell, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Down with Skool! (Armada Lions) (Hardcover)
Ronald Searle was one of Britain's best-loved cartoonists, and Geoffrey Willans (if I remember correctly) a former teacher. If there is such a thing as a genius, then Willans and Searle together were one.

The Molesworth books purport to be instructional manuals by an English public schoolboy named Nigel Molesworth, about how to survive the school experience. From the day the first was published in 1953, they became a wild success, especially with schoolchildren. They are still in print and still eminently applicable (which says something both about the quality of the books, and about the nature of the British school system, which even at that point hadn't changed much in 400 years).

The wild misspelling that permeates them caused hysteria among parents, and their removal from many school libraries (the books, not the parents). Nevertheless, many phrases from them have since gone into the English lexicon, particularly "enuff said" and "as any fule kno".

The quartet consists of:

Down with Skool
How to be Topp
Wizz for Atomms
Back in the Jug Agane

and an omnibus edition,

The Compleet Molesworth, reprinted by Penguin as
Molesworth

These are considered absolute classics in the UK along with gems such as 1066 and all that. Whether they're intelligible to anyone but Britons is another matter; but I didn't think Monty Python would be, and I was wrong about that...

P.S. And should you be wondering (during reading) exactly what Treens might be, they're the myrmidons of that most unforgettable villain The Mekon (whose portrait you can see here), from the wonderful contemporary comic-book series Dan Dare.
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