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Jennings #15
Especially Jennings
Gara-gara hadiah yang ada di dalam kotak keripik jagung, timbullah ide untuk mendirikan Klub Pengikut Jennings (KPJ) - yang pemimpin (Jennings sendiri) dan bendaharanya (Darbishire) tidak tahu pasti untuk apa klub itu didirikan. Anak-anak lain bersedia bergabung, tapi hanya Binns dan Blotwell yang bersedia menyumbang. Padahal, mereka adalah murid-murid termuda di sekolah.Tapi situasi tiba-tiba berubah, setelah peluru-peluru ditembakkan dari senjata ruang angkasa! Kejadian-kejadian aneh susul-menyusul. Dan... persis seperti yang diucapkan Matron ketika ruang empat kebanjiran - "Kalian harus hati-hati! Terutama kau, Jennings!"
- GenresChildrens
192 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1965
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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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February 11, 2017
Buku yang ini tentang sepak terjang KPJ (Klub Pengikut Jennings) yang aktivitasnya..... hanya berkisar barter kotak korek api, mengumpulkan kupon sereal untuk ditukarkan mainan pistol luar angkasa, dan re-packaging permen dan coklat sisa ke dalam bungkus yang lebih 'wow'. Salut untuk Jennings, yang bisa-bisanya mengumpulkan 'pengikut' dan bahkan uang iuran untuk klub yang amat sangat tidak penting ini.
Semua buku Jennings tergolong relatable bagi saya, terutama yang ini. Jadi terkenang masa-masa SD saat, errrr, muncul berbagai ide yang saat itu terkesan 'brilian' dan 'dahsyat'(koleksi eksklusif tutup botol soda dan produksi 'jam pasir dalam botol air mineral' yang nekat mau dijual ke orang-orang ghahahaha).
Semua buku Jennings tergolong relatable bagi saya, terutama yang ini. Jadi terkenang masa-masa SD saat, errrr, muncul berbagai ide yang saat itu terkesan 'brilian' dan 'dahsyat'
February 16, 2022
never failed to make me laugh back when i was younger. my mom recommended this book when i was in the 6th grade. from the first look, i thought this book would be just like a classy old book. didn't expect i could laugh that much until i fell from the chair. this book is one of the best Jennings books!
January 18, 2022
Good writing, lively and likely characters, well-imagined plots: you cannot help but recognized it all as your own life !
I sometimes wonder if it was really meant for children; more like it was written by an adult enjoying themselves remembering...
I sometimes wonder if it was really meant for children; more like it was written by an adult enjoying themselves remembering...
June 25, 2021
Always excellent
March 28, 2022
More hilarious mishaps and misunderstandings by Jennings. Laugh out loud fun as part of my holiday reading.
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August 10, 20231996 edition, Tom
August 20, 2011
Di buku ini, Jennings dan Darbi selain membentuk klub pengikut Jennings, juga sempat terkunci di luar karena harus ngambil antena radio transistor yang tanpa sengaja dibuang Darbi keluar jendela. Udah segitu kucing-kucingan ama Pak Wilkie, toh tetap saja mereka berdua ketauan pas masuk ke dalam asrama.
Belum lagi pena Jennings yang rusak, menyebabkan Jennings selalu mendapatkan nilai jelek saat ujian. Padahal, Jennings berjanji pada bibinya untuk meraih ranking pertama dalam Bahasa Prancis... Ck ck ck... gimana bisa ranking satu kalo ulangannya saja langsung diberi nilai 2 oleh Pak Wilkie...
Tapi ada kejadian yang oke juga... Pas Jennings dan Darbi secara tidak sengaja mengajak anak Prancis yang sedang berlibur di Inggris, untuk datang ke sekolah Linbury Preparatory dan tukar menukar kotak korek api. Ternyata hal ini malah membuat ayah anak Prancis itu bersedia menyekolahkan anaknya di sana. Yah... kejadian ini oke buat kepala sekolah karena mendapatkan anak baru, tapi sial buat Jennings karena, bagaimana dia bisa jadi juara 1 bahasa Prancis apabila ada anak Prancis di kelasnya?
Belum lagi pena Jennings yang rusak, menyebabkan Jennings selalu mendapatkan nilai jelek saat ujian. Padahal, Jennings berjanji pada bibinya untuk meraih ranking pertama dalam Bahasa Prancis... Ck ck ck... gimana bisa ranking satu kalo ulangannya saja langsung diberi nilai 2 oleh Pak Wilkie...
Tapi ada kejadian yang oke juga... Pas Jennings dan Darbi secara tidak sengaja mengajak anak Prancis yang sedang berlibur di Inggris, untuk datang ke sekolah Linbury Preparatory dan tukar menukar kotak korek api. Ternyata hal ini malah membuat ayah anak Prancis itu bersedia menyekolahkan anaknya di sana. Yah... kejadian ini oke buat kepala sekolah karena mendapatkan anak baru, tapi sial buat Jennings karena, bagaimana dia bisa jadi juara 1 bahasa Prancis apabila ada anak Prancis di kelasnya?
July 10, 2011
Pinjam dari Iyut, terima lewat Mute
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*geleng-geleng kepala*
Duh, ampyun dah.
Dari bonus dalam kotak kripik jagung, John Christopher Timothy Jennings dengan berani menjanjikan hadiah senjata ruang angkasa dengan peluru-peluru yang bisa ditembakkan secara gratis bagi yang menjadi anggota Klub Pengikut Jennings.
Masalah muncul ketika bibi Angela mengirimkan paket, dan Jennings terpaksa harus membukanya di depan teman-temannya. Isinya coklat sekotak, dan karena mengira itu untuk Jennings, maka langsung habis dibagi-bagi. Setelah bubar, barulah Jennings menemukan surat yang menyatakan bahwa coklat itu untuk Matron. Bukan Jennings namanya kalau tidak menyelesaikannya dengan caranya sendiri...*teringat Pak Wilkins memakan permen karet* :D :D :D
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*geleng-geleng kepala*
Duh, ampyun dah.
Dari bonus dalam kotak kripik jagung, John Christopher Timothy Jennings dengan berani menjanjikan hadiah senjata ruang angkasa dengan peluru-peluru yang bisa ditembakkan secara gratis bagi yang menjadi anggota Klub Pengikut Jennings.
Masalah muncul ketika bibi Angela mengirimkan paket, dan Jennings terpaksa harus membukanya di depan teman-temannya. Isinya coklat sekotak, dan karena mengira itu untuk Jennings, maka langsung habis dibagi-bagi. Setelah bubar, barulah Jennings menemukan surat yang menyatakan bahwa coklat itu untuk Matron. Bukan Jennings namanya kalau tidak menyelesaikannya dengan caranya sendiri...*teringat Pak Wilkins memakan permen karet* :D :D :D
June 9, 2025
With some good laughs and fairly original situations, I think this book far better than the more recent instalments in the series. Indeed, the escapade involving Mr Wilkins' car is a vast improvement on an earlier, similar incident involving Jennings' bicycle.
Highlight: Matron hands round Jennings' 'mixed assortment' of sweets.
Lowlight: Jennings, Darbishire and Mrs Hackett show great inconsistency in the routine of pouring out breakfast cereal.
Highlight: Matron hands round Jennings' 'mixed assortment' of sweets.
Lowlight: Jennings, Darbishire and Mrs Hackett show great inconsistency in the routine of pouring out breakfast cereal.
September 29, 2011
Buku Novel Jennings adalah salah satu koleksi di Perpustakaan SD ku.
Aku bersyukur banget sekolahku dan kampusku punya koleksi yang mantap-mantap di Perpustakaannya.
Aku menyelesaikan beberapa judul Seri Jennings semasa SD lho :)
Petualangan-petualangan anak laki-laki yang bengal namun pintar dan menjadi detektif mendadak :)
Aku bersyukur banget sekolahku dan kampusku punya koleksi yang mantap-mantap di Perpustakaannya.
Aku menyelesaikan beberapa judul Seri Jennings semasa SD lho :)
Petualangan-petualangan anak laki-laki yang bengal namun pintar dan menjadi detektif mendadak :)
April 30, 2015
Consistently decent throughout, with the main action back in the school where it belongs.
Highlight: While attempting to set up a listening post in the dormitory, Darbishire takes Jennings' instruction to chuck the aerial out of the window a bit too literally.
Highlight: While attempting to set up a listening post in the dormitory, Darbishire takes Jennings' instruction to chuck the aerial out of the window a bit too literally.
October 25, 2015
Ide Jennings meminta sumbangan ke kawan-kawannya untuk ngisi kotak permennya sebagai hadiah bagi Matron memang cemerlang, tapi hasilnya beneran bikin ngakak....
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