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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 254946, member: 25&quot;]It probably dates from somewhere just before 1954. As far as I know it was not a classic of children&#039;s literature, and being in indifferent condition with no dust jacket I doubt if it has any value other than curiosity. </p><p>It appears to be of the genre &#039;school story&#039; which was always about life and minor shenanegans in&nbsp; a single sex public boarding school (a private fee paying school for American readers) boys read boy&#039;s school stories, I assume the girls read girls school stories.</p><p>If it was a Sunday School prize I imagine it was considered to be of a morally uplifting nature, which may have made it a very dull read.</p><p>It is odd how popular the genre was with the 10 to 14 age group despite the fact that only a very tiny proportion of them could actually attend such a school. There was of course the scholarship boy/girl theme where a lower middle class protagenist from a run of the mill non rich background would&nbsp; eventually shine despite being &#039;trade&#039; (a different meaning then) and become Captain of Cricket or even Senior Prefect.</p><p><br /></p><p>For those too young to know, a prefect was a pupil policeman, with the power of corporal punishment, either with a cane or a slipper, appllied either to the clothed or bare bottom of the miscreant, according to taste.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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