2 Books by Jack Lasenby
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Overview: Jack Lasenby is an editor and writer of children’s books. He is from New Zealand. From 1969 to 1975, Lasenby edited the School Journal, which had previously been edited by the poets James K. Baxter, Alistair Campbell, and Louis Johnson. His work with School Journal brought him into close contact with leading authors and illustrators of children’s books.
Genre: Children | Fiction | Historical Fiction
Old Drumble: The Smartest Drover’s Dog There Ever Was – The humorous and heartwarming story of Jack Jackman, a young boy who wants to be a stock drover, set in the small Waikato township of Waharoa in the late 1930s. Jack has a wonderful warm relationship with his parents and an old family friend, Andy the Drover, who each week drives a mob of cattle or sheep through the main street with the help of his dog, Old Drumble, and his horse, Nosy. All three become the boy’s close friends over the long hot summer holidays, and each week Andy tells him and even more amazing story of how Old Drumble has saved the day yet again, with each adventure becoming more and more absurd. A Baron Munchausen of the sheep mob, Andy’s yarns are dlightful, funny and quixotic – and in the hands of a master storyteller like Jack Lasenby, a passionate advocate of children’s literacy, the result is pure magic.
Mr Bluenose – A charming novel for young readers by an award-winning writer, based on a young boy’s summer in the countryside and the characters – real and imagined – that he meets. Dad has to go to work, so you go down to see Mr Bluenose; there’s always something to do there. He tells you stories while you give him a hand to sort apples, feed the pigs, teach Horse how to push the wheelbarrow, and terrify boys who plan to raid the apple trees. On the way home, you look for empty bottles and sell them for boiled lollies to Mr Bryce at the store. He pays you more boiled lollies for telling him stories about how Mr Bluenose got his name, how he rode a whale to London, and was so seasick for so long in the crow’s nest that he ran away from sea to Waharoa and planted his orchard. And then there’s always Freddy Jones and the other kids to scare with stories about vampires, moreporks, and the White Woman of Waharoa who has a face as smooth as an egg. Think Spike Milligan meets Roald Dhhal, this is the captivating and amusing, rich and fun-filled story of a country summer, seen through a child’s eye and created by a master story-teller.
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