There was the time he pinched his brother’s bicycle and skidded out of control all over the family picnic. In the stories Crompton wrote all the way up until her death aged 78 in 1969, the schoolboy was always getting caught up in all sorts of scrapes. One of William’s key character traits was his rebelliousness. I think that really touched a nerve with Crompton’s readers.” He can speak to all of us because we look at the adult world through his 11-year-old eyes and we see people for how they really are. He’s been described as a sort of everyman. Jane McVeigh, whose recent biography of the author has been published to celebrate the 100th anniversary, says: “William is an ageless character. But how on earth did this scampish schoolboy, with his loyal group of friends, The Outlaws, and their uproarious escapades, become so popular? In the English language alone, more than 12 million of the Just William books have sold.
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