Old Schooldays

Via Gelert’s Experiment in Normality, I am gladly reminded of two books from my childhood and currently snuggled together in the library: Down With Skool and How To Be Topp, both written by Geoffrey Willans and illustrated by Ronald Searle. Both long out of print, but they have been reissued as a compendium. There’s even a short animation using the original Searle illustrations from Down With Skool: