This is the humorous story of Jack. Too big to go
to school, he sleeps - nearly all the time - with his eyes open and a smile on
his face. He’s a young man of literally few words, and they are the only things
his mother taught him.
All the neighbours call him useless. His mother refuses
to believe the bad things she is told about Jack, whose life of luxurious
laziness is punctuated by one adventure after another. Even encounters with
pigs, donkeys, and fierce lions are no deterrent for the lazy but lucky Jack.
Jack does nothing, but ends up with everything. Incredibly,
he becomes star pupil, actually gets a job, (I won’t say for how long), and
finds himself in a coffin. His life journey leads him to a most astonishing
outcome.
We follow his amazing progress as the jigsaw puzzle that is Jack’s life, slowly forms a whole picture.
Through a series of incredible and ridiculously
funny events, Jack remembers to adhere to his mother’s words, which, limited as
they are, seem every time to be the right answers to every question he is
asked. Regardless of all his apparent setbacks, Jack simply slides sleepily
through life and situations, into success.
Readers will laugh their way through this funny book,
suitable for confident readers.
Idle
Jack is illustrated by the illustrator of Julia
Donaldson’s The Gruffalo and is the
fourth book in a series created in collaboration with the greatly talented illustrator,
Axel Scheffler.
Title:
Idle Jack
Author:
Robert Leeson
Illustrator:
Axel Scheffler
Publisher:
Walker Books, $15.99
Publication
Date: March 2018
Format:
Paperback
ISBN:
9781406380521
For
ages: 7+
Type:
Junior Fiction
