Howker

I'm happy it's on the list, because I like it, but where is Some of the Kinder Planets by Wynne-Jones, and Badger on the Barge by Howker?

Betcha can't read just one Roger Sutton 2008

There's a great short story by Janni Howker about an old woman recalling her childhood where she passed as a boy.

Children's literature's defining phrase, Roger Sutton 2007

Howker, with pomp and circumstance, brought in a roast boar's head garnished with holly-like crimson elder, they all stood up and cheered as though they really liked the idea of eating it.

The Danger Mark A. B. [Illustrator] Wenzell 1899

Scott Seagrave drawing injurious pictures of Howker on the black-board, and Geraldine sorting lumps of sugar from the bowl on the breakfast-tray, which had not yet been removed.

The Danger Mark A. B. [Illustrator] Wenzell 1899

Howker, the old butler, met him at the foot of the stairs.

The Danger Mark A. B. [Illustrator] Wenzell 1899

Howker strove in vain to defend his dining-room when Scott appeared on one skate; but the breakfast-room and pantry were forcibly turned into rinks; the twins swept through the halls, met and defeated their nurses,

The Danger Mark A. B. [Illustrator] Wenzell 1899

Howker, who evidently had been listening off stage, entered with reproachful dignity and announced that ceremony.

The Danger Mark A. B. [Illustrator] Wenzell 1899

There was a fine sketch of Howker, wrinkled, dim-eyed, every inch a butler, every fibre in him the dignified and self-respecting, old-time servant, who added his dignity to that of the house he had served so long and well.

The Danger Mark A. B. [Illustrator] Wenzell 1899

Mrs. Farren, the housekeeper, understood it; Howker, the butler, knew it; Lacy knew it -- he who had served forty years as coachman in the Seagrave family.

The Danger Mark A. B. [Illustrator] Wenzell 1899

However, when Howker arrived they retired hastily with pockets full of cinnamon sticks, olives, prunes, and dried currants, climbing triumphantly to the library above, where they curled up on a leather divan, under the portrait of their mother, to divide the spoils.

The Danger Mark A. B. [Illustrator] Wenzell 1899