Here comes Jack the Treacle Eater, Never swifter, never sweeter, With a peck of messages, Some long, some shorter, From my Lord and Master's quarter (built like a minaret) Somewhere in Somerset. Jack, how do you make such speed from banks of Tone to banks of Tweed - And all the way back? 'I train on treacle,' says Jack.

 

There are 112 pages in this book. This book was published 2002 by Pan Macmillan .

Charles Causley was born in Cornwall, and apart from six years spent in the Royal Navy during the Second World War, lived there all his life. He was one of Britain's foremost poets, writing for both adults and children. He was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1967 and appointed CBE in 1986. In 1987 he won the Kurt Maschler Award for Jack the Treacle Eater and in 1990 the Ingersoll/T. S. Eliot Award of America. Charles Causley died in 2003.