Jackanapes
By: by Juliana Horatia Ewing ; with illustrations by Randolph Caldecott
Contributors: Caldecott, Randolph, 1846-1886; Denning, Miss; Armstrong, Edward Maitland, 1874-1915; Rives, Gwendolen Ella Rives Armstrong
Publisher: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; E. and J.B. Young and Co.
Published: 1885
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 47
Subjects: Children's stories; Histoires pour enfants
Description: In a 19th century English village, the high-spirited boy, orphaned at the Battle of Waterloo, rode his pony across the green, obedient to his aunt but creating scrapes she never thought to forbid him. He later joined the British Army and gave his life in battle to save his best friend.
Notes: T.p.: "Seventieth thousand."