Jennings turns journalist when he receives a printing kit for his birthday, and dubs himself editor of the Form Three Times.

Jennings decides to build huts out of reeds and branches. He and Darbishire are thrilled with them. They include a patented ventilating shaft, a special drainage canal and a pontoon suspension bridge! Things go horribly wrong when he is put in charge of Elmer, the treasured goldfish, and even worse when the Head visits. Gruesome hornswoggler!

When Jennings is inspired to take up a career as a detective, with faithful Darbishire as his assistant, trouble is bound to be just around the corner. Their first mission - to recover a 'stolen' sports cup, is the first bungled attempt to imitate super sleuth Sherlock Holmes. Frightful bish! Crystallised cheesecakes!

Jennings is suffering from beginning-of-term-itis, but things soon return to total mayhem when his new diary is made public property! Alarmed at his private thoughts being made public, he decides to invent a secret language. When the precious diary goes missing, however, Jennings finds himself on the wrong side of the law! Relggowsnroh emoseurg!

'You can't compete in famous outer space tournaments wearing heavy great clodhoppers like diver's boots. You've got to be on your toes, darting about like a streak of lightning'. Who would have thought that a Ping-Pong Championship of Outer Space could have caused so much trouble? Determined to play the monumental tournament, Jennings and Darbishire end up getting themselves in more of a mess than they could have imagined. Then, when Mr Wilkins' attempts to clear out the school lost property cupboard go strangely awry, he does not have to look far to guess who the culprit is; Jennings, of course! 'Good wheeze!'

Set in an English preparatory school, recounts the comical adventures of Jennings.

'Ah, yes! Jennings - as usual - it always is' Jennings accidentally sets his rubber on fire. 'The High Fidelity Telephonic Communication' (or two tins and a piece of string); the 'Affair of the Assistant Masterpiece' and Jennings as a musical prodigy. Old Wilkie is definitely not going to get the peace and quiet he was hoping for. 'Mouldy chizz!'

When Jennings and Darbishire discover a hibernating hedgehog they are intrigued and decide to rescue it. But things rarely go to plan, and after a series of mishaps involving Miss Thorpe's puppy and a bottle of Ants. Then, Anti-Escaping Fluid, and Jennings is left wondering whether Old Sleepy will make it through the winter. 'Clueless clodpoll!'

The boys at Linbury Court Prep are eager to speed up space travel. Jennings' task is to find a suitable helmet. But is it really a good idea to take a dome-shaped glass-case, which housed a stuffed woodpecker? Petrified paintpots! Jennings and Darbishire's luck is in when they attempt to apprehend a suspected burglar? Bat-witted clodpoll!

Climbing onto the school roof to recover a ball, Jennings and Darbishire find themselves stuck and break into an attic. Then Jennings wins a pig at a parish fete, and unable to find a more suitable owner, he decides to hide it in the school potting-shed. 'Jumbo-jet of a hoo-hah'