Knight Sir Louis and the Dreadful Damsel

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The second adventure in the hilarious series about Knight Sir Louis, including lots of different storytelling, fabulous comic strip illustrations and lots and lots of jokes! Intertextual, with interactive illustrations on every page and including comic strips, choose-your-own adventures, newpaper articles and interviews amongst many others, this series is perfect for those children who still love a lot of pictures in the book, so they're almost reading by stealth. If you’d like to know more about our authors and books, go to the Guppy Aquarium on YouTube where you’ll find interviews, draw-alongs and all sorts of fun.

The only hope of stopping the fiendish lizard is a long-lost, ancient Thingamabob (a talisman with watery powers. I love the illustrative device of always depicting him with his helmet on so that we never get to see what he looks like, thus every child can imagine themselves as the hero of this story. His TV credits include Hey Duggee, Clangers, Octonauts and his game-writing credits include SpongeBob SquarePants and iCarly.But soon he finds himself dealing with strong enchantments, powerful magic, and evil potatoes… all in a normal day for this brave knight. My professional qualifications are: PGDip in Library and Information Management from the University of Ulster and CILIP Chartership (MCLIP). with the help of his friends Reader Catalogue, Pearlin, his haiku-loving steed, Clunkalot as well as a few ogres and gnomes, our hero determines to get to the slimy bottom of things . Knight Sir Louis finds himself dealing with strong enchantments and powerful magic (as well as potatoes…) and the machinations of his soon to be arch-enemy-nemesis: the Stripy Knight.

He has now been sent on another important mission – to face the dastardly, double-headed dragon, Borax! Knight Sir Louis is an epic non-epic saga ‘Stewart Lee, comedian’ A really funny book … will appeal to anyone who likes adventures and laughing’ Philip Reeve ‘What a hero! Unfortunately, King Burt the Not Bad is also not too clever and is rather easily duped by the oleaginous stranger, Squire Lyme, who arrives at Sideways Castle and charms the king with obsequious flattery and a bag of green gummies!He will be helped by his chums the robot horse, Pearlin the Wizentor, Mr Catalogue the talking boar, and Dave the sword with a hat. Come down the travelators, exit Sainsbury's, turn right and follow the pedestrianised walkway to Crown Walk and turn right - and Coles will be right in front of you. I only post positive reviews, if I don't like a book or cannot imagine it being one that I would recommend to a readership group whose interests differ from my own, I don't post a review.

Written by Myles and illustrated by Greg, the brothers are well-known in the tv world for their animation, including series Circle Square on Channel 5’s Milkshake.Author Myles McLeod is here to read us an extract from the brand new Knight Sir Louis book The Sinister Snowball - get ready for lots and lots of silliness! King Burt the Not Bad is in a bit of a snit with his principal dragon-slayer, our hero Knight Sir Louis. Myles and brother Greg are also known for their short films, which include 'Marfa' which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2018. He is also the author (with brother Greg) of creativity books Create Your Own Universe (LOM Art) and A Book of Brilliant Ideas (LOM Art) as well as the fun, novelty books Breeds a Canine Compendium (Square Peg) and Cats a Feline Compendium (Square Peg), both written with sister Fenella Smith. Louis rides off to the legendary Brrrrrland with his friends Catalogue and Clunkalot, but waiting for them are goofy goblins, a talking carrot and the biggest meanest snowball in the whole wide world.