RIP Ronald Searle Page 2

Quote: Chappers @ January 3 2012, 4:53 PM GMT

I'm a big Molesworth fan too. Got 4 books. Was that the lot?

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Not quite. Simon Brett cheekily wrote two sequels-How to Stay Topp and Molesworth Rites Again. Perhaps Searle had enough of Molesworth as well?

The original books were Down With Skool!, How to be Topp, Whizz for Atomms (published in the US as Molesworth's Guide to the Atommic Age and Back in the Jug Agane.

They were published in an omnibus in 2000.

I particularly love Molesworth; sheer bloody genius. RIP.

Fascinating long life and career. Son of a railwayman, he went from POW in Singapore to Burma Railway to Lilliput, then Punch to Hollywood to a more secluded life in France -- always drawing. He did numerous covers for America's TV Week.