Product Description

Another riotous year in the life of Ragley-on the-Forest village school.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8393 in Books
• Published on: 2008-01-28
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

Glasgow Evening Times, January 19th 2008
Take a dash of Heartbeat, add a sprinkling of All Creatures Great And Small, throw in a liberal dash of Please Sir! and you have Mister Teacher.
Set in the 1970s, this sequel to the hugely successful Teacher, Teacher! chronicles the life of Jack Sheffield as headmaster on Ragley-on-the-Forest Church of England school in North Yorkshire.
It will have you crying tears of laughter and sadness, with larger-than-life characters like Vera, the school secretary, who dreams of taking charge of the local WI. Sheffield paints a vivid picture of a lively school.
A joy to read - and perfect for a Sunday night TV series!

Daily Express
A charming memoir

Glasgow Evening Times
It will have you crying tears of laughter and sadness. A joy to read.

Customer Reviews

teacher teacher
A thoroughly enjoyable easy read. Simply a delight, written with typical Yorkshire humour. Jack Sheffield shares the joy he experienced in his teaching profession with us all. Written in the James Herriot & Gervais Finn mold. A real 5 star read!!!!!

It Will Catch On!
This is the second in Jack Sheffield's part story part autobiography of his tales as a Head Teacher at a village school in Yorkshire.

The book is set in the late seventies, when the world was a seemingly different place, where the excitement of Margaret Thatcher becoming the first Woman Prime Minister on a national level to Vera, Jack's faithful secretary becoming the President of the local Women's Institute. What I love about this book and the story is how simple everything must have been then, only merely 30 years ago and also Jack Sheffield has achieved in showing the reader that actually a lot has changed in this time.

The worries of paying 30 pence a pint, that £1 million pound was a lot for a footballer and watching football on television was free were major talking points for a little village, think how much these things are now and they are all still being talked about.

You need to have read the first book, as it is a great introduction to the characters and this book cracks on with the story without the need to go over who everyone is and what role they play in the village. The likes of Ruby, the school caretaker with a larger than life personality and the delightful Beth, who has captured Jack's heart, are all featured. Look out for Laura though! There are new characters, which I hope in further books will be dealt with more, Miss Golightly of the local shop, Tim the hardware shop's pernickety owner all add to make this a rich tale of village life and it's centre, not just being the pub but the school where the next generation of locals are being developed and nurtured by Jack and his team of teachers.

My review of the first book commented on its over similarity to Gervase Phinn. I take that back with this book, this is a unique tale within its own right and worthy of a read. It will make you laugh, chuckle but also warm your heart with its stories as you go through another year with Jack Sheffield. Cannot wait for the next in the tale.

Village life, school life and love life rolled into two great reads! What more could you ask for?
These are two books that have the X factor about them, namely the feel good factor! It reminds the reader of a time when the school was the centre of the community, children were individuals and not numbers, teachers were on the whole respected and there was less dictated and more freedom in the classroom. The books appealed to me on a number of fronts: firstly,I enjoyed the northern dialect, having originated orginally from Lancashire; I also loved the fact that it was set in a school, as I'm a teacher and finally, I enjoyed the fact that it was set in 1977 when I was born, which is an unusual era to choose. As soon as I read the first book, I was hot footing it to buy the second as I was getting withdrawal symptoms. I can't believe I have to wait to see whether he turned left or right. Although obviously he should have chosen Laura!!

Thank you Jack, you were one of the best parts of my half term!!

Jasmine