Anthony Buckeridge

A generation ago, Anthony Buckeridge was the equivalent of J K Rowling. His schoolboy hero, Jennings, was as much the talk of ten-year-olds as Harry Potter is today. He had formerly worked in the Fire Service during World War II, before becoming a teacher and headmaster, then full-time writer.  'Jennings' featured in stories he used to tell his pupils.

‘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