Dieses ursprünglich als Brief angefangene Buch ist entstanden, weil ich an der standesamtlichen Trauung meines lieben Patenkindes nicht dabeisein werde. Er wurde dann doch etwas länger...

Ducoboo’s life isn’t easy. Being the king of dunces–while still managing to avoid wearing the “crown” too often–takes work, dedication, and an awful lot of imagination. It also takes a proper target:...

The pupil Ducoboo is nice and a joker, but also a notorious dunce—a “quality” that is no bed of roses…One must be awfully resourceful to avoid the humiliating dunce’s cap! But Ducoboo is brimming with...

What would a class be without a dunce? A bit like a curry without spice. And Ducoboo sure spices up his fellow pupils' days. Not one lesson goes by without flavour--with him, school is an endless string...

It’s not by counting the flies on the ceiling that one becomes a star in maths... And one must be really resourceful to avoid the beckoning finger of the teacher and the humiliation of the dunce cap!...