Book description
If headmasters were honest a prospectus would be a book which sa
how many kanes he hav, contane a warning about the skool dog and the
amount of prunes and rice served during the term.
Nigel Molesworth may not be the best student St Custard's will
ever have, but he is certainly able to express his feelings about his
beloved school - not to mention botany walks and foopball. With his
handy guide to Masters at a Glance (Know the Enemy) and Lessons (chiz
chiz) and How to Avoid Them, no noble brave fearless etc. boy will
ever have to suffer at the hands of the 'swots, bulies, milksops
greedy guts and oiks' ever again WIZZ.
Geoffrey Willans was born and educated in England and spent time not
only as a tiny pupil but also as an extremely perceptive school-master.
After active service during the Second World War he joined the BBC as a
feature writer. He died in 1958, at the age of 47. Ronald Searle was
born in 1920 and educated at the Cambridge School of Art. He was a
hugely successful graphic artist and pictorial satirist, and also the
creator of the wonderfully wicked St. Trinians. He died in January 2012,
at the age of 91.
