Die Hoof van Keurboslaan

Keurboslaan #2

by Theunis Krogh

Die nuwe skooljaar op Keurboslaan bring gerugte van 'n gemaskerde rower, bekend as Jan Fiskaal, wat die omgewing terroriseer. Dr Serfontein doen sy bes om te help om die rower vas te trek, veral om die invloed wat dit op die verbeelding van die avontuurlustige skoolseuns het, te bekamp. Daar is heelwat nuwe leerlinge by die skool, ook Flip, 'n seun wat van die huis weggeloop het en met iemand anders se naam by die skool aansluit. Eugene Krynauw, nou sestien jaar oud, en sy vriende is ook pal in die moeilikheid.

Genres: Young Adult

Paperback

First published January 1, 1941

About the author

A pseudonym of Stella Blakemore.

http://www.nb.co.za/authors/2462

Reviews

[AGilden · Rating 4 out of 5]

I loved the Keurboslaan books as a 9-12-year-old kid. I read them multiple times then. I'm just reading the whole series again, and while I certainly don't enjoy them as much now as I did then, I'll rate it as my 10-year-old self would have rated it. As an adult, I think the perfection of Dr. Serfontein is almost sickeningly overdone, but I loved him as a child, which is strange because in real life I disliked strong authority figures and rebelled against them big-time. I also enjoy the parts of these books the most that focus on the school and the naughtiness of the boys, while the Serfontein family sagas are less interesting. I'll recommend it to kids any day.

The 1973 reprint, still printed today, included only 11 books, since each of them combined several books that were previously published separately:
1.Jong Doktor Serfontein
2. Die Hoof van Keurboslaan
3. Nuwelinge op Keurboslaan
4. Die kroon van Keurboslaan
5. Raaisels op Keurboslaan
6. Die Serfontein-kinders
7. Kaptein Richard
8. Geheime op Keurboslaan
9. Misverstand op Keurboslaan
10. Krisis op Keurboslaan
11. Ongenooide gaste op Keurboslaan

[Johann Fourie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Keurboslaan is die klassieke kosskool storie - dit moet in die konteks van sy tyd gelees word.

Ek dink tieners vanaf 10 jaar oud sal hierdie baie geniet.

[AGilden · Rating 4 out of 5]

I loved the Keurboslaan books as a 9-12-year-old kid. I read them multiple times then. I'm just reading the whole series again, and while I certainly don't enjoy them as much now as I did then, I'll rate it as my 10-year-old self would have rated it. As an adult, I think the perfection of Dr. Serfontein is almost sickeningly overdone, but I loved him as a child, which is strange because in real life I disliked strong authority figures and rebelled against them big-time. I also enjoy the parts of these books the most that focus on the school and the naughtiness of the boys, while the Serfontein family sagas are less interesting. That was why I think this book is one of the better ones because it is quite school-centered. But I'll recommend it to kids any day.