Collect Kapitein Mitnagt, Struikrover Chronicled By Randolph Stow Disseminated As Script

Entertaining for all agesstars

Written in, this book by Australian writer Randolph Stow is a fine example of humorous fiction in the young adult genre.
A young adventurer decides to embark on a career as a bushranger, but succeeds only with the help of his five animal friends: the cat Khat, cow Dora, horse Red Ned, parrot Major, and sheepdog Gyp.
The story is populated with a fine cast of lively human characters as well, including Trooper OGrady, Judge Pepper, Mrs Chiffle, Miss Laura Wellborn, and even Queen Victoria and her Poet Laureate.
It all comes together as a terrific and funny celebration of some classic Aussie myths and stereotypes, Entertaining for all ages. GODLY GADFLY i love this book and it is still fresh after all this time, so Australian in flavour, it is quirky and humourous, warm hearted and rather subversive, A colourful collection of characters including bushrangers, Queen Victoria and a very superior siamese cat keep the story whipping along, This is really enjoyable and would be a terrific read for children agedto, It's simple but smart, and has wonderfully witty characters especially Khat, the Siamese cat, It is set in Western Australia and tells the story of Midnite, a not very smart nor handsome seventeen year old boy, who is taken in hand by Khat, a Major Mitchell cockatoo, a sheepdog, cow and a horse to become a bushranger.
He has suprisingly success as a bushranger, and under the guidance of the masterful Khat, becomes known as Captain Midnite, Captain Midnite is in and out of prison, but becomes renowned, even across the seas with Queen Victoria keeping tabs on his doings, He eventually makes a fortune and goes on to try to win the heart of the slightly standoffish Miss Laura,
There is a lot of Midnite that reminds me of The Magic Pudding by Normal Lindsay, It's quite irreverent and pokes fun at the law, the monarchy and just about everything we hold in high esteem but that's

half the fun, Super cute.

And now I also know from the dedication that the original Captain Starlight or one of them was a public servant in later life, which delights me.
Ostensibly a children's book, this little bit of Australian folklore fantasy is so wellwritten, so witty and so entertaining that it speaks to adult readers as well.
Cute story, a wild colonial boy a cat, cow, dog, cockatoo and horse, Try bush ranging. Read this when I was aboutyears old and enjoyed it greatly, Found a copy recently and read it to myyr old who found it a hoot, We shall have to pay a visit to Fremantle prison to see the 'special' cell that was built to hold his real life counterpart, Mooondyne Joe in.
read it when I was a kid, just read it again, and it's just as good as I remembered A classic Australian tale, Midnite is a humorous tale of a young man who becomes the most famous of bushrangers.

Our Junior Book Club gave it,..Dat een Siamese kat ineens tegen je begint te praten is één ding, dat het dier je voorstelt een struikroversbende op te richten, is helemaal het toppunt.
Maar Mitnagt, zeventien jaar oud en moederziel alleen in de Australische wildernis van honderd jaar geleden, gaat erop in, Dank zij Khat wordt hij de beroemdste struikrover van heel Australië, Je kunt erom lachen, je kunt erom huilen, of allebei, Want dit is humor van een heel speciale soort,

Voor jongens en meisjes van, This is a very enjoyable children's romp, and another to add to my collection of booksIhavereadtoboysatbedtimeandwhichtheyenjoyedquitealot, For obvious reasons I haven't set that category up as a Goodreads shelf,

The story of notverybright and almosthandsome West Australian bushranger, Captain Midnite, and his gang of animal companions  led by the fiendishly clever and fierce Khat, a Siamese cat of royal descent, is a lot of fun.
Midnite's friendship and rivalry with the kleptomaniacal Trooper O'Grady, his runins with authority all the way up to Queen Victoria and romance with the lovely Miss Laura Wellborn are neatly and humorously developed.
La historia es, simplemente, alucinante, Los personajes son muy divertidos y es fácil que un niño se encariñe con ellos, Este es uno de mis libros favoritos de la infancia!
Writers for adults should take heed at how charmingly didactic, captivating a portrait of Australian cultural values, this book for children manages to convey in just a handful of pages.
Being a bit of an American tourist down here, this caricature of Australian character is an old shoe that's still comfortable in many respects, After reading MOONLITE, I decided to return to a childhood favourite of mine, When I was about, Midnite was my favourite book, and reading it again, it holds up, but there's something else that strikes me about this fun tale of a young bushranger and his gang of animal accomplices.
This book is so gay, Throughout the entire book, we have the juxtaposition of the moral criminal Midnite, and the criminal charismatic cop Trooper O'Grady, who is obsessed with Midnite, in love with him, follows him around everywhere, calls him his very best friend, can't stop thinking about him, can't keep his hands off him oh my god, this is just like a fanfic setup right here.
It's even more than the Kate Beaton "Nemesis mine" comic because it doesn't seem like Midnite and O'Grady even pretend to hate each other, O'Grady's a pretty bad influence, but the whole thing about him becoming a cop because it means it's easier for him to deal with his criminal impulses could also imply that he's a criminal in.
. . a different way. If you know what I mean, There's a lot more development for Midnite and O'Grady's relationship than there is for that of Midnite and Miss Laura Wellborn, and O'Grady sobs when Midnite gets married.

I can't say it was terribly surprising to find out that Randolph Stow was gay, It also made a lot of sense that I was so drawn to this book as a youngster, when I grew up to be extremely gay myself.
The ultimate be gay do crimes book, A delightful book from my childhood and shared with my own children in turn,
A great Aussie re read to start mychallenge, Rereading this after many years, it is both of its time and yet startlingly modern: Stow manages a nuanced view of police, law, theft, monarchy and authority all within hilariously simplified/overblown humour.
The portrait Aboriginal people who are treated as mysterious shadowy forces rather than actual people, separate to white society unknowable is certainly better than stereotypical, but it still depersonalises them in some chapters, and women who are mostly capricious and silly although Mrs Chifley, a key exception, is one of the great characters of Australian fiction doesn't necessarily survive as brilliantly, but inevertheless, this is a wonderfully Australian tale which both celebrates and subverts our key myths.
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