Ebook {Epub PDF} Ordinary Jack by Helen Cresswell

The story centers on Jack, who feels too ordinary in comparison to his siblings and parents, all of whom have many Strings in their Bow. His wacky Uncle Parker dreams up a scheme to make the family think Jack has prophetic powers.5/5(14).  · Buy a cheap copy of Ordinary Jack book by Helen Cresswell. Eleven-year-old Jack, the only ordinary member of the talented and eccentric Bagthorpe family, concocts a scheme to distinguish himself as a modern-day prophet.5/5(4). Ordinary Jack is a novel by Helen Cresswell, the first book in the Bagthorpe Saga.

Helen Cresswell (11 July - 26 September ) was an English television scriptwriter and author of more than children's books, best known for comedy and supernatural www.doorway.ru most popular book series, Lizzie Dripping and The Bagthorpe Saga, were also the basis for television series. Cresswell's TV work included adaptation of her own books for television movies and series: Lizzie. Find many great new used options and get the best deals for Ordinary Jack by Helen Cresswell at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products! If P.G. Wodehouse had been writing novels for young readers during the last quarter of the 20th century, he might have come up with something like Ordinary Jack, the first in Helen Cresswell's series "The Bagthorpe Saga." Jack, a hopelessly conventional and normal boy stuck in the middle of the madcap, eccentric Bagthorpe family, known for their prodigious achievements, wonders how he can ever.

The story centers on Jack, who feels too ordinary in comparison to his siblings and parents, all of whom have many Strings in their Bow. His wacky Uncle Parker dreams up a scheme to make the family think Jack has prophetic powers. Ordinary Jack is a novel by Helen Cresswell, the first book in the Bagthorpe Saga. One of the ten books in the Bagthorpe Saga, Ordinary Jack was my first foray into the work of Helen Cresswell (who has over titles under her belt). Never have I laughed so much in reading any book (and I have read a lot of funntybooks): the anarchic lifestyle of the Bagthorpe family (based upon the author's own family) is as horrifying as it is wholly entertaining.