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Old Drumble / Jack Lasenby.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Auckland, N.Z. : HarperCollins, 2008.Description: 224 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781869506742 (pbk.)
  • 186950674X (pbk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • NZ823.2 22
Awards:
  • New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children & Young Adults 2009 Junior Fiction Winner.
Summary: Set in the small Waikato town of Waharoa in the 1930's. Jack Jackman is a young boy who wants to be a stock drover and has a special relationship with an old family friend, Andy the Drover. Andy shares yarns and adventures with Jack each week when he drives a mob of sheep or cattle through the main street with the help of his dog, Old Drumble and his horse, Nosy. Suggested level: primary, intermediate.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Childrens Fiction Davis (Central) Library Stack Room Children's Fiction LAS Available T00469486
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The smartest drover's dog there ever was. Winner of the NZ Post Children's & Young Adults Book Awards 2009 - Junior Fiction.

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 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 sheep or cattle 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 an 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 delightful, 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.

Novel for children.

Cover subtitle: the smartest drover's dog there ever was.

Set in the small Waikato town of Waharoa in the 1930's. Jack Jackman is a young boy who wants to be a stock drover and has a special relationship with an old family friend, Andy the Drover. Andy shares yarns and adventures with Jack each week when he drives a mob of sheep or cattle through the main street with the help of his dog, Old Drumble and his horse, Nosy. Suggested level: primary, intermediate.

New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children & Young Adults 2009 Junior Fiction Winner.

Suitable 8 - 12 Years

New Zealand Post Book Awards Finalist - 2009

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