Get Well, Good Knight (Penguin Young Readers, L3)
by Shelley Moore Thomas
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Author: Shelley Moore ThomasIllustrator: Jennifer Plecas
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-02-09
ISBN: 0142400505
Number of pages: 48
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers
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Book Review: We just love this series!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
My four year old girl has been enamored with dragons for a couple of years, and has lately gotten very interested in knights, castles, etc. I quickly found that there is very little out there that is appropriate for smaller children, on the subject of knights. Either the information is too complex, or more likely, too gruesome for my taste. When I discovered this sweet series, I immediately wanted all of them.
I really like the way the verses flow and how the author repeats the action over and over.
I was amused and pleased that the knight finally turns to his own mother, when the magician was unable to create a concoction to help heal the dragons, and used my favorite remedy-chicken soup! The efforts of the magician provided us much laughter as he mixed, "fish scales, old snails, fingernails, and lizard tails", or "frog slime, old grime, a rusty dime, a rotten lime".
As all of the books, this one has a rhythm that is smooth and pleasant to read and hear. So many rhyming books sound forced and awkward, but none of these Good Knight books fall into this category. I'd give these a two thumbs up!
These are just fun books. I'm glad my library has them, but we are buying them too, so we can read them whenever we want! It is a refreshing angle to the knight and dragon relationship. Nearly everything else I found was adversarial, and since we love dragons, I was sorry about that.
If you have a child who loves knights and dragons, also check out Tomie Paola's The Knight and the Dragon, about a knight reading up on how to fight dragons and a dragon reading up on how to fight knights. The "fight" is hilarious and the end has a clever twist that delighted my child and me too!
The Reluctant dragon, by Kenneth Grahame, is either for an older child who can read, or a great read aloud that my four year old enjoyed, and there is a neat old Disney movie based on this book. We loved this too.
Summary of Get Well, Good Knight (Penguin Young Readers, L3)
The much-heralded Good Knight is back-only this time his three little dragon friends are sick in bed. Their scaly foreheads are hot and their noses are drip-drip-dripping. They feel awful. The Good Knight comes to the rescue again! He brings them some slimy, grimy soup from the wizard to make them feel better. But the dragons wont touch it. What is a Good Knight to do?
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