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Jennings #17
Jennings in Particular
"Ke tempat pembakaran sampah!Keadaan darurat merah!Semua ikut membantu!" seru Jennings.Apakah mereka berhasil menyelamatkan surat Bibi Angela pada waktunya? Hanya gara-gara salah paham, Sampul Hari Pertama yang berharga itu nyaris musnah terbakar. Gara-gara ingin mengambil bola di atap ruang olahraga, Jennings terperangkap dalam kantong tidur dan harus melompat-lompat seperti kangguru. Semua anak terlibat dalam semua peristiwa konyol yg disebabkan oleh ulah si Jennings!Seperti kata Pak Wilkins,"Aku sudah benar-benar jenuh, direpotkan oleh anak-anak konyol dari Ruang Tidur Empat - apalagi Jennings!"
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First published January 1, 1968
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About the author
Anthony Buckeridge
110 books45 followersAnthony Malcolm Buckeridge was born in London but following the death of his banker father in the First World War he moved with his mother to Ross-on-Wye to live with his grandparents.
At the end of the war they returned to London where he developed a taste for theatre and writing. A scholarship from the Bank Clerks' Orphanage fund permitted his mother to send him to Seaford College boarding school in Sussex. His experiences as a schoolboy there were instrumental in his later work, particularly in his famous Jennings series of novels.
Following the death of his grandfather, the family moved to Welwyn Garden City where his mother worked in promoting the new suburban utopia to Londoners. In 1930 Buckeridge began work at his late father's bank but soon tired of it. Instead he took to acting including an uncredited part in Anthony Asquith's 1931 film 'Tell England'.
After marrying his first wife, Sylvia Brown, he enrolled at University College London where he involved himself in Socialist and anti-war groups and he was later to become an active member of CND. Unfortunately at university he did not take a degree after failing Latin.
By then the couple had two children and, with a young family to support, he found himself teaching in Suffolk and Northamptonshire, which again provided further experiences for his later work. During the Second World War, he was called up as a fireman and wrote several plays for the stage before returning to teaching in Ramsgate.
He used to tell his pupils stories about the fictional character Jennings, who was based on an old school chum of his, Diarmid Jennings. Diarmid was a prep schoolboy boarding at Linbury Court Preparatory School, where the headmaster was Mr Pemberton-Oakes.
After World War II, he wrote a series of radio plays for the BBC's Children's Hour chronicling the exploits of Jennings and his rather more staid friend, Darbishire. 'Jennings Learns the Ropes', the first of his radio plays, was broadcast on 16 October 1948. And then in 1950, the first of 26 Jennings novels, 'Jennings Goes to School' was published.
'Jennings Follows a Clue' appeared in 1951 and then Jennings novels were published regularly through to 1977 before he reappeared in the 1990s with three books that ended with 'That's Jennings' in 1994. The books were as well known and as popular as Frank Richards' Billy Bunter books in their day and were translated into a number of other languages.
The stories of middle class English schoolboys were especially popular in Norway where several were filmed. The Norwegian books and films were rewritten completely for a Norwegian setting with Norwegian names and Jennings is called "Stompa". And in France Jennings was, rather oddly, known as Bennett!
He also wrote five novels featuring a north London Grammar School boy, Rex Milligan, one other novel, 'A Funny Thing Happened: The First [and only] Adventure of the Blighs' (1953), wrote a collection of short stories, 'Stories for Boys' (1957), his autobiography, 'While I Remember' (1999) and edited an anthology, 'In and Out of School' (1958).
In 1962 he met his second wife, Eileen Selby. They settled near Lewes where he continued to write and from where he also appeared in small (non-singing) roles at Glyndebourne.
He was awarded the OBE in 2003.
He died on 28 June 2004 after a spell of ill health with his second wife Eileen and three children, two from his first marriage, surviving him.
Gerry Wolstenholme
September 2010
At the end of the war they returned to London where he developed a taste for theatre and writing. A scholarship from the Bank Clerks' Orphanage fund permitted his mother to send him to Seaford College boarding school in Sussex. His experiences as a schoolboy there were instrumental in his later work, particularly in his famous Jennings series of novels.
Following the death of his grandfather, the family moved to Welwyn Garden City where his mother worked in promoting the new suburban utopia to Londoners. In 1930 Buckeridge began work at his late father's bank but soon tired of it. Instead he took to acting including an uncredited part in Anthony Asquith's 1931 film 'Tell England'.
After marrying his first wife, Sylvia Brown, he enrolled at University College London where he involved himself in Socialist and anti-war groups and he was later to become an active member of CND. Unfortunately at university he did not take a degree after failing Latin.
By then the couple had two children and, with a young family to support, he found himself teaching in Suffolk and Northamptonshire, which again provided further experiences for his later work. During the Second World War, he was called up as a fireman and wrote several plays for the stage before returning to teaching in Ramsgate.
He used to tell his pupils stories about the fictional character Jennings, who was based on an old school chum of his, Diarmid Jennings. Diarmid was a prep schoolboy boarding at Linbury Court Preparatory School, where the headmaster was Mr Pemberton-Oakes.
After World War II, he wrote a series of radio plays for the BBC's Children's Hour chronicling the exploits of Jennings and his rather more staid friend, Darbishire. 'Jennings Learns the Ropes', the first of his radio plays, was broadcast on 16 October 1948. And then in 1950, the first of 26 Jennings novels, 'Jennings Goes to School' was published.
'Jennings Follows a Clue' appeared in 1951 and then Jennings novels were published regularly through to 1977 before he reappeared in the 1990s with three books that ended with 'That's Jennings' in 1994. The books were as well known and as popular as Frank Richards' Billy Bunter books in their day and were translated into a number of other languages.
The stories of middle class English schoolboys were especially popular in Norway where several were filmed. The Norwegian books and films were rewritten completely for a Norwegian setting with Norwegian names and Jennings is called "Stompa". And in France Jennings was, rather oddly, known as Bennett!
He also wrote five novels featuring a north London Grammar School boy, Rex Milligan, one other novel, 'A Funny Thing Happened: The First [and only] Adventure of the Blighs' (1953), wrote a collection of short stories, 'Stories for Boys' (1957), his autobiography, 'While I Remember' (1999) and edited an anthology, 'In and Out of School' (1958).
In 1962 he met his second wife, Eileen Selby. They settled near Lewes where he continued to write and from where he also appeared in small (non-singing) roles at Glyndebourne.
He was awarded the OBE in 2003.
He died on 28 June 2004 after a spell of ill health with his second wife Eileen and three children, two from his first marriage, surviving him.
Gerry Wolstenholme
September 2010
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March 16, 2019
Judul dari seri Jennings, yang harus saya koleksi ulang lagi setelah koleksi sebelumnya habis dimangsa rayap....*menyeka air mata yang belum mengering*
Isi buku mengikuti formula konflik ala Jennings yang begitu saya suka, kurang lebih seperti ini:
(1) Ada situasi yang tidak biasa
(2) Jennings punya ide yang (menurut dia) brilian untuk memanfaatkan situasi itu
(3) Gara-gara ide briliannya itu, timbul masalah
(4) Jennings punya ide yang (menurut dia) brilian untuk memecahkan masalah itu
(5) Masalahnya tambah banyak & runyam
Begitulah, ada rangkaian kekonyolan, miskomunikasi, serta campuran nasib sial dan mujur yang mewarnai petualangan para anak asrama di buku ini. Mungkin ini bukan termasuk judul Jennings favorit saya, karena sub-plotnya tidak begitu sambung-menyambung dengan baik dan tidak ada tema besar yang mengikat keseluruhan buku. Ada bagian yang menjanjikan sewaktu Jennings tidak sengaja memenangkan seekor anak babi dan harus menyelundupkannya diam-diam ke lingkungan asrama, tapi plot sejenis ini dieksekusi dengan lebih baik di Operasi Jennings (*Jennings dan Darbishire melanggar peraturan sekolah dengan merawat seekor landak). Plot si anak babi di sini diputus agak terlalu cepat; sayang, padahal deskripsinya begitu menggelikan sekaligus menggemaskan! Sama halnya dengan insiden 'sabun mandi aromatik untuk Matron', yang juga terasa berakhir begitu saja.
Nah, sewaktu saya mulai berpikir "sepertinya ini buku Jennings pertama yang gagal bikin saya ngakak terjengking-jengking, hanya sampai senyum-senyum kambing", bukunya masuk ke bagian terbaik: petualangan filateli Jennings dan Darbishire.
-Charles Darbishire, menulis dan mengirim surat untuk dirinya sendiri supaya prangkonya bisa mendapat cap kirim bertanggal sama dengan tanggal terbitnya (*jangan tanya kenapa ini penting):
Charles yang baik, mudah-mudahan kau baik-baik saja. Salam, Charles.
Darbi lagi, menjelaskan teori Pythagoras di kelas dengan amatngawur jenius:
"Kita katakan saja ada seorang kepala suku Indian yang punya tiga orang istri, dan ia hendak membawa mereka bepergian dengan kuda nil. Menurut Pythagoras, kepala suku itu harus menempatkan istrinya yang bertubuh gemuk di bagian depan, sedang dua lagi yang kurus-kurus disuruh duduk di dekat ekor, agar kuda nil itu tidak terbalik."
-John Jennings, menjelaskan kepada bibinya kenapa ia telat membalas surat:
Terima kasih Bibi sudah menulis surat untuk menanyakan apa sebabnya aku tidak menjawab surat Bibi. Sebabnya, karena aku terpaksa menjual prangko untuk surat ke Bibi yang belum dipakai kepada seseorang untuk membeli prangko baru yang belum dijual, tapi karena Bibi mengirimi sebuah prangko baru maka aku memperoleh uangku kembali dari seseorang dan dengannya membeli prangko lama untuk dibubuhkan pada surat untuk Bibi, jadi soalnya beres.
Jen dan Darbi, kalian memang layak jadi idola saya.
Isi buku mengikuti formula konflik ala Jennings yang begitu saya suka, kurang lebih seperti ini:
(1) Ada situasi yang tidak biasa
(2) Jennings punya ide yang (menurut dia) brilian untuk memanfaatkan situasi itu
(3) Gara-gara ide briliannya itu, timbul masalah
(4) Jennings punya ide yang (menurut dia) brilian untuk memecahkan masalah itu
(5) Masalahnya tambah banyak & runyam
Begitulah, ada rangkaian kekonyolan, miskomunikasi, serta campuran nasib sial dan mujur yang mewarnai petualangan para anak asrama di buku ini. Mungkin ini bukan termasuk judul Jennings favorit saya, karena sub-plotnya tidak begitu sambung-menyambung dengan baik dan tidak ada tema besar yang mengikat keseluruhan buku. Ada bagian yang menjanjikan sewaktu Jennings tidak sengaja memenangkan seekor anak babi dan harus menyelundupkannya diam-diam ke lingkungan asrama, tapi plot sejenis ini dieksekusi dengan lebih baik di Operasi Jennings (*Jennings dan Darbishire melanggar peraturan sekolah dengan merawat seekor landak). Plot si anak babi di sini diputus agak terlalu cepat; sayang, padahal deskripsinya begitu menggelikan sekaligus menggemaskan! Sama halnya dengan insiden 'sabun mandi aromatik untuk Matron', yang juga terasa berakhir begitu saja.
Nah, sewaktu saya mulai berpikir "sepertinya ini buku Jennings pertama yang gagal bikin saya ngakak terjengking-jengking, hanya sampai senyum-senyum kambing", bukunya masuk ke bagian terbaik: petualangan filateli Jennings dan Darbishire.
-Charles Darbishire, menulis dan mengirim surat untuk dirinya sendiri supaya prangkonya bisa mendapat cap kirim bertanggal sama dengan tanggal terbitnya (*jangan tanya kenapa ini penting):
Charles yang baik, mudah-mudahan kau baik-baik saja. Salam, Charles.
Darbi lagi, menjelaskan teori Pythagoras di kelas dengan amat
"Kita katakan saja ada seorang kepala suku Indian yang punya tiga orang istri, dan ia hendak membawa mereka bepergian dengan kuda nil. Menurut Pythagoras, kepala suku itu harus menempatkan istrinya yang bertubuh gemuk di bagian depan, sedang dua lagi yang kurus-kurus disuruh duduk di dekat ekor, agar kuda nil itu tidak terbalik."
-John Jennings, menjelaskan kepada bibinya kenapa ia telat membalas surat:
Terima kasih Bibi sudah menulis surat untuk menanyakan apa sebabnya aku tidak menjawab surat Bibi. Sebabnya, karena aku terpaksa menjual prangko untuk surat ke Bibi yang belum dipakai kepada seseorang untuk membeli prangko baru yang belum dijual, tapi karena Bibi mengirimi sebuah prangko baru maka aku memperoleh uangku kembali dari seseorang dan dengannya membeli prangko lama untuk dibubuhkan pada surat untuk Bibi, jadi soalnya beres.
Jen dan Darbi, kalian memang layak jadi idola saya.
October 25, 2020
'As they went, they could hear Mr Wilkins complaining to Mr Carter about the stupidity of boys in general - and of Jennings, in particular.'
I bought this second hand copy of Jennings in Particular in one of the many bookshops in Hay-on-Wye in September and started reading it last week after a difficult day at work. I ended up sobbing with laughter at the antics of Jennings and his friend Darbishire at Linbury Court School. It all starts when Form Three has an Earth versus Outer Space cricket match, leading to Jennings being summoned to Old Wilkie's office (whilst cocooned in a sleeping bag he's trapped in), the subsequent punishment for climbing on the gymnasium roof to retrieve lost cricket balls, an accidental acquisition of a pig, the desperate need for the two friends to acquire the latest stamps, and Darbishire's interesting but wholly inaccurate interpretation of the Theory of Pythagoras.
A real tonic! Anthony Buckeridge certainly knew how to tell a comic tale!
I bought this second hand copy of Jennings in Particular in one of the many bookshops in Hay-on-Wye in September and started reading it last week after a difficult day at work. I ended up sobbing with laughter at the antics of Jennings and his friend Darbishire at Linbury Court School. It all starts when Form Three has an Earth versus Outer Space cricket match, leading to Jennings being summoned to Old Wilkie's office (whilst cocooned in a sleeping bag he's trapped in), the subsequent punishment for climbing on the gymnasium roof to retrieve lost cricket balls, an accidental acquisition of a pig, the desperate need for the two friends to acquire the latest stamps, and Darbishire's interesting but wholly inaccurate interpretation of the Theory of Pythagoras.
A real tonic! Anthony Buckeridge certainly knew how to tell a comic tale!
January 11, 2018
Another very good Jennings book, but with only one real laugh-out-loud moment - where Darbishire explains Pythagoras's Theorem to Mr. Wilkins. Jennings' attire after being trapped in the attic is also one of the great moments of the book.
I think Jennings is definitely more enjoyable to read in the hardback editions of the 1950s and 6os. More modern paperbacks with very uninspiring cover designs and illustrations which seek to bring Jennings into the present day don't do him any favours. It's better to leave him firmly entrenched in the era to which he belonged. It's enjoyable being able to step back in time.
I think Jennings is definitely more enjoyable to read in the hardback editions of the 1950s and 6os. More modern paperbacks with very uninspiring cover designs and illustrations which seek to bring Jennings into the present day don't do him any favours. It's better to leave him firmly entrenched in the era to which he belonged. It's enjoyable being able to step back in time.
August 28, 2022
Revisited an old favourite Jennings and Darbyshire series which was one of my introductions to reading in the early 1970s. I loved it if I found a new story I hadn’t read. Still has a charm, albeit dated, I think there’s a bit of all of us boys in Jennings.
August 21, 2025
What an excellent children's book ! Very good style, incredible imagination, wonderful composition, all very funny and most believable.
These books are really invaluable.
These books are really invaluable.
August 20, 2011
Ampun deeeh sama Jennings. Kasian juga kadang. Apapun yang dia lakukan sebenarnya normal-normal aja. Tapi entah kenapa, buntutnya selalu jadi bencana.
Contohnya pas Jennings dan Darbi harus membantu pasar amal di desa Linbury. Entah kenapa, keisengannya bermain lempar bola malah berbuah sial. Jennings dapat hadiah pertama lempar bola, yakni anak babi... Sampai di sekolah, si babi disembunyikan di gudang berkebun. Belum sempat Jennings dan Darbi melaporkan kasus anak babi, eeeh, si babi keburu buat masalah, yakni kabur saat pintu gudang dibuka Kepala Sekolah...
Belum lagi berlagak "salah paham" atas tugas mengeposkan surat Pak Wilkie, yang digunakan Jennings untuk beli perangko terbitan pertama... Ck ck ck... Kocak lah...
Contohnya pas Jennings dan Darbi harus membantu pasar amal di desa Linbury. Entah kenapa, keisengannya bermain lempar bola malah berbuah sial. Jennings dapat hadiah pertama lempar bola, yakni anak babi... Sampai di sekolah, si babi disembunyikan di gudang berkebun. Belum sempat Jennings dan Darbi melaporkan kasus anak babi, eeeh, si babi keburu buat masalah, yakni kabur saat pintu gudang dibuka Kepala Sekolah...
Belum lagi berlagak "salah paham" atas tugas mengeposkan surat Pak Wilkie, yang digunakan Jennings untuk beli perangko terbitan pertama... Ck ck ck... Kocak lah...
July 17, 2025
Though not down there with the worst books I have ever read, this is definitely the worst of this series for me. It is both desperate for plot and careless of character, more than ever before. Buckeridge's usual faults (contrivance, sarcasm, the entire handling of Miss Thorpe...) are at play here, but by this time, I don't necessarily blame him; he was obviously under pressure to keep churning out more and more Jennings books until he was pretty much blind to what he was doing.
Highlight: the boys make the most of Jennings being sent a product designed for the 'modern miss'.
Lowlight: just when the quest for the new stamp issue seems to be over, Jennings learns he has to retrieve one of his specimens from the bonfire.
Highlight: the boys make the most of Jennings being sent a product designed for the 'modern miss'.
Lowlight: just when the quest for the new stamp issue seems to be over, Jennings learns he has to retrieve one of his specimens from the bonfire.
December 19, 2014
Cerita tentang Jennings memang selalu lucu. Ga pernah bosan tertawa sendiri membayangkan kekonyolan anak-anak kelas 3, dengan Jennings sebagai otaknya.
Permainan Crickets antara bumi dengan makhluk asing, cara menghilang dari ruang terkunci 2 setengah menit sebelum ditemukan, anak babi yang jadi hadiah permainan bowling, dan yang kisah paling menarik adalah saat Jennings dan Darbishire sama-sama mengorbankan apa yang paling mereka inginkan untuk temannya. Buku yang sangat menghibur dan ada pesan moralnya. Nice.
Permainan Crickets antara bumi dengan makhluk asing, cara menghilang dari ruang terkunci 2 setengah menit sebelum ditemukan, anak babi yang jadi hadiah permainan bowling, dan yang kisah paling menarik adalah saat Jennings dan Darbishire sama-sama mengorbankan apa yang paling mereka inginkan untuk temannya. Buku yang sangat menghibur dan ada pesan moralnya. Nice.
August 17, 2015
Lupa pernah download e-book ini berbulan2 lalu.
Memang yg namanya Jennings kalo gak terlibat masalah gak bakalan seru :D . Berawal dari pertandingan cricket angkasa luar, hingga memenangkan babi di lomba desa dan usaha untuk mendapatkan perangko seri Penemuan Ilmiah terbitan perdana. Semuanya khas Jennings...
Bahkan hanya Darbishire juga yg mampu menguraikan rumus Phytagoras menjadi Wanita indian menunggang kuda nil *ngakak*
Hebohlah...apalagi Jennings :D
Memang yg namanya Jennings kalo gak terlibat masalah gak bakalan seru :D . Berawal dari pertandingan cricket angkasa luar, hingga memenangkan babi di lomba desa dan usaha untuk mendapatkan perangko seri Penemuan Ilmiah terbitan perdana. Semuanya khas Jennings...
Bahkan hanya Darbishire juga yg mampu menguraikan rumus Phytagoras menjadi Wanita indian menunggang kuda nil *ngakak*
Hebohlah...apalagi Jennings :D
March 30, 2020
An extremely average Jennings book. The highlight should be Jennings accidentally winning a pig and setting it loose at school, but sadly this comes nowhere near to making the list of classic Jennings mishaps.
Highlight: Darbishire fails to convince Matron that he has a temperature when he accidentally leaves the hot tap running after using it to change his thermometer reading. But there is nothing in this one that should ever be considered for inclusion in the Jennings Hall of Fame!
Highlight: Darbishire fails to convince Matron that he has a temperature when he accidentally leaves the hot tap running after using it to change his thermometer reading. But there is nothing in this one that should ever be considered for inclusion in the Jennings Hall of Fame!
July 10, 2011
Pinjam dari Iyut, terima lewat Mute.
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October 8, 2011
989th - 2011
January 22, 2016
One of my favourite Jennings moments occurs in this book: Jennings as a caterpillar is just too funny for words.
December 13, 2019
Konyol dan kocak, khas Jennings!
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