Books with title Old Drumble

The smartest drover's dog there ever was. Winner of the NZ Post Children's & Young Adults Book Awards 2009 - Junior Fiction. the humorous and heartwarming story of Jack Jackman, a young boy who wants to be a stock drover, set in the small Waikato township of Waharoa in the 1930s. Jack has a wonderful, warm relationship with his parents and an old family friend, Andy the Drover, who each week drives a mob of sheep or cattle through the main street with the help of his dog, Old Drumble, and his horse, Nosy. All three become the boy's close friends over the long hot summer holidays, and each week Andy tells him an even more amazing story of how Old Drumble has saved the day yet again, with each adventure becoming more and more absurd. A Baron Munchausen of the sheep mob, Andy's yarns are delightful, funny and quixotic - and in the hands of a master storyteller like Jack Lasenby, a passionate advocate of children's literacy, the result is pure magic.

Old Drumble is no ordinary sheep dog. As his master, Andy the Drover, tells it - he'd had some pretty amazing adventures. Like the time he persuaded a frightened mob of sheep to cross a flooded river ... on a tightrope. Or the time he had to get Old Nosy, Andy's horse, out of a tree. Each week over one long hot summer, a small boy is amazed by the stories Andy has to tell about his four - footed mate, the smartest, cunningest, cleverest sheep dog there ever was ... Winner of the NZ Post Children's & Young Adults Book Awards 2009 - Junior Fiction.