How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen

I knew how great Russell Hoban was (in his Frances books for kids and his grown-up novels Turtle Diary and Riddley Walker), and I knew, vaguely, that he had written another kids' book with the thrillingly promising title of How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen. So why did it take me so long to track down a copy? I don't know, but when I finally did last week, it exceeded even my highest expectations, from the captain's preposterous (but somehow believable) competitions to the spot-on anarchy of Quentin Blake's illustrations. Now my only remaining question: when will its sequel, A Near Thing for Captain Najork (featuring, among other things, a "jam-powered frog"), be brought back into print? I'm waiting! (Ages 5 to infinity)