When a baby is found in a cardboard box, he is named after the label on the box, so ends up being called This Way Up. He doesn't like it and sets about finding a new name. Can you guess what it turns out to be? Tall-Tale Jack is a rich man's servant, prone to laziness and inventing elaborate excuses for getting out of doing any work. But the truth can be stranger than fiction, and so it proves to be for this Jack...

 

This book is part of a book series called Pair Of Jacks .

There are 128 pages in this book. This book was published 2010 by Hachette Children's Group .

Tony Ross is one of the UK s top illustrators of children s stories. His books are published in twenty-two languages. " Michael Lawrence has been writing children's books for over twenty years and is best-known for creating the award-winning and best-selling series, Jiggy McCue.