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An Angel Called Harold
It's the end of Christmas term at Ragley-on-the-Forest village school and as teh excitement mounts, Jack is, as ever, trying to make sense of what's going on.
Why is Jimmy Poole guiding a limping turkey with a length of orange baling twine across the frosty village green? Why is the vicar walking as though he is wearing sandpaper underpants? And will the far-from-angelic Harold Bustard really have to be an angel in the school nativity play? He would much rather be a sheep, but his redoubtable mother is instisting...
The time approaches for the concert to begin and chaos reigns--but, as always, the children triumph and staff, parents and all the village enter into the Christmas spirit.
Why is Jimmy Poole guiding a limping turkey with a length of orange baling twine across the frosty village green? Why is the vicar walking as though he is wearing sandpaper underpants? And will the far-from-angelic Harold Bustard really have to be an angel in the school nativity play? He would much rather be a sheep, but his redoubtable mother is instisting...
The time approaches for the concert to begin and chaos reigns--but, as always, the children triumph and staff, parents and all the village enter into the Christmas spirit.
- GenresChristmas
60 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2008
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About the author
Jack Sheffield
26 books79 followersJack Sheffield (born Jack Linley, 1945) is a British author who wrote a series of books of fiction about the headmaster of a village school in a fictional Yorkshire village. The stories are set from the late 1970s to the early 1980s and attempt to portray life in Yorkshire as it was at that time.
He was trained as a teacher at St John's College, York and later became head teacher of two schools in North Yorkshire and then senior lecturer in primary education at Bretton Hall.
He took up writing after retirement, and his first novel "Teacher, Teacher!" sold 100,000 copies
He was trained as a teacher at St John's College, York and later became head teacher of two schools in North Yorkshire and then senior lecturer in primary education at Bretton Hall.
He took up writing after retirement, and his first novel "Teacher, Teacher!" sold 100,000 copies
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December 31, 2020
A pleasant enough little read, but not so much a book as a promotion for Dear Teacher from which this story is taken. Having said that, it is nicely produced and was a stocking filler Christmas present for my wife. Some years on, it seemed the ideal thing to pick up on Christmas Eve and zip through very quickly. It entertains, but doesn't make me want to read the books, not really my thing, but I can see how Jack Sheffield conjures up good memories and I did laugh a couple of times, which I always think is tricky with books. I do like the cover. And it's set in Yorkshire so what's not to like?
November 12, 2022
I have enjoyed Jack Sheffield's entire Teacher series. This is a short, sweet little story with all our favorite folks at Ragley-On-the-Forest and features the Christmas nativity play and pageant.
January 6, 2026
Not as enjoyable as his other books.
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