SuitabookThe Gold Bat
P. G. Wodehouse
- Reading
- Try reading a section at a time, then pause to track who has the bat and what the boys are doing to retrieve it. The school routines and cricket details can offer a second thread to follow.
- Themes
- School life and sport: Wrykyn’s routines and sporting life accompany the plot about the missing bat. The novel gives school life substantial attention, presenting it through routines and sport rather than using the setting only as a backdrop.
- The prank and the lost bat: O’Hara and Moriarty prank a statue, and O’Hara mislays a gold bat borrowed from Trevor; attempts to retrieve it drive the plot. The lost bat and attempts to retrieve it form the plot’s central thread.
- Worth knowing
- The initiating prank involves putting tar and feathers on a statue. If your child is sensitive to disrespectful or disruptive behaviour, you could discuss how the boys’ actions affect others.