It is quite difficult to review Humor since it deals with ones personal tastes and Helen Cresswell’s Humor is really hard to hold on. Ordinary Jack moves around setting up larger than life scenarios and the characters trying to adapt the matter of fact in a well justified manner though it doesn’t shape up in that manner. The novel might interest some readers but for some it may fall completely flat. Try to get the copy of the novel and give it a go. If your sense of humor matches with the author’s, you will definitely enjoy Ordinary Jack.

Ordinary Jack is the weakest of the Bagthorpe Saga. Cresswell’s superbly witty and dry sense of humor most of the time and the overall plot of the novel leaves a reader unsatisfied. There are plenty of situations which were left unexplained. The story had lots of scope to develop into a full stretched funny piece of work. Ordinary Jack -is not that funny and doesn’t have the same amount of charm as some of the later books of the Bagthorpe Saga.