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The Kiss That Missed
One evening, when the King is in a hurry, his goodnight kiss to the Little Prince goes astray. After rattling around the Prince's bedroom, it flies out the window and floats into the dark forest, where it has no business to be. The King decides to do something about it. He orders the Knight to climb on his horse, ride into the forest, and bring back the kiss. But the fores...more
Hardcover, 32 pages
Published
August 10th 2002
by Barron's Educational Series
(first published 2002)
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This cover of this book leads the reader to believe there might be a fair maiden who is delivering the kiss... Once the story begins we learn that the wayward kiss is delivered by the busy king who is not attentive to his son and misses his son's cheek.. Thereby bouncing around the room and out the window... Thus creating a chase scene by a faithful royal knight. The misadventures of the knight are comical and the illustrations delightful.
I first chose to read this story to a classroom of stude...more
I first chose to read this story to a classroom of stude...more
A glossy, eye catching cover always gets my attention and this one promises great action and adventure. The high standard of detail continues through the entire book and some illustrations have a comic book effect.
It is a narrative of a very busy king who blows a kiss at this son, but it misses and flys out the bedroom window. Upon realising the kiss has missed the king employs one of his loyal knights to retrieve it. As this clumsy knight hunts down the flying kiss he is taken through wild wood...more
It is a narrative of a very busy king who blows a kiss at this son, but it misses and flys out the bedroom window. Upon realising the kiss has missed the king employs one of his loyal knights to retrieve it. As this clumsy knight hunts down the flying kiss he is taken through wild wood...more
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A harried king blows his son a Royal Kiss, but in the king's haste, the kiss misses the prince, rattles around the room, and flies out the window into the night. A blundering knight sets out into the wild wood to retrieve the kiss and return it to it's rightful owner. "Wild creatures with wild eyes, too much hair, and very bad manners lived there." Will the knight return with the kiss or will he be eaten by the dangerous creatures of the wild wood night?
I thought this book was ultra fun and char...more
I thought this book was ultra fun and char...more
Just as the kiss in the title misses it's mark (a young prince on his way to dream land), this picture book also misses it's mark in never living up to it's potential. The premise is that a very busy king rushes by the prince's bed room at bedtime and blows a kiss that misses the prince. The kiss flies out a window and the king summons his "best" knight to track down the kiss. The illustrations are delightful and full of whimsy and the knight does head out on a grand adventrue. However this is w...more
I read this book to my nephew and thought it had a very charming story. The knight in it does not go on a quest to save a beautiful damsel-in-distress, but to retrieve a kiss that has flown away and was intended to be given to the young prince from his very busy father, the king. I think the book has a good message to it. That sometimes we should slow down in life and remember things (and people) that are truly important. My nephew also really enjoyed this book and the illustrations are lovely....more
This is one of the first books that I bought for my godson that caused me to be incredibly pleased with myself. Most of the books that I bought for him up to that point were books that already I knew about, books that I had grown up with, or books that were perhaps more popular and had somehow been made known to me even though I was entering college when Cole was born. (I may have bought him books that were way beyond his own reading level, but were still great to read to him.)
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Absolutely one of my favourite kids stories. Melling's illustrations are amazingly good, and this is a great story as well.
It's great for typical boys (knight, dragon) and typical girls (princess, kiss). It has a great moral that isn't in-your-face (in fact, the kids probably don't overtly get it, which is fine, since it's aimed at the parents too).
Can't recommend this highly enough.
It's great for typical boys (knight, dragon) and typical girls (princess, kiss). It has a great moral that isn't in-your-face (in fact, the kids probably don't overtly get it, which is fine, since it's aimed at the parents too).
Can't recommend this highly enough.
The king is very busy and his goodnight kiss misses his son, his loyal knight heads out to retrieve it. Moira loves all the kissing that happens during the quest. I just found out that David Melling made more books with the same characters (The knight babysits the prince and princess!) and I really don't think it was a good enough story to warrant sequels.
This is one of my favorite bedtime books. It's light and humorous with adorable illustrations. The king's goodnight kiss to his son misses, and the brave knight goes off to bring it back through many trials and tribulations. Fortunately the kiss is there to save him from anything too nasty and to make sure everyone gets a good night's sleep. Oh, and don't forget to watch the lion on the knight's shield; he's reacting too!
Fun to read fairy tale themed story with a dragon, king, queen, prince, and knight. I liked that this fairy tale story featured a boy instead of a princess because so many do feature a girl as the protagonist. The illustrations were fun and engaging and we liked following the kiss throughout the book.
"Once upon a Tuesday..." begins this unusual, but very humorous book about a wayward goodnight kiss. The story is fun and the illustrations are terrific. This is a terrific story to read aloud, especially at bedtime. We really enjoyed reading this book together.
A king blows a kiss to his son but the kiss misses the target. A bumbling knight is sent to recover the rogue kiss. A fun, fresh story. I liked that it was the father bestowing kisses; too many books portray only the mother as the affectionate parent.
One of my favorite picture books. I like the boy-ish-ness of a sort of fairytale. The boys love looking for the animals in the shadows and my boys can relate to a daddy that is just too busy but loves them just the same.
We love this book. I think it is so clever and the illustrations are darling. The only problem is that in a few places it doesn't flow very well. I just have to add my own words to help my children understand who is speaking.
One of my favorite 'bed time story' books of recent years. Soft, beautiful drawings and a cute tale of a king too busy to properly kiss his child good night. Kids of all ages will love it.
There is something about reading this story in the middle of a book story and then to your Senior Honors English Class that makes it special!! Plus the pictures are beautiful
Super cute story of a king who was in a hurry and blew his son a goodnight kiss. The kiss missed and the king's knight has quite an adventure chasing down the kiss.
A really cute story about a goodnight kiss that goes astray. What makes the book very charming is that it is the king's good night kiss and how his brave knight attempts to retrieve it. Defiantly would make a fun nighttime read aloud.
Joel and I loved this book. He started to say the words before I would we read it so often! I thought it had cute illustrations and story line.
This was a cute book about a good night kiss that gets away and a knight who chases after it. It would be a good choice for a fantasy storytime.
Very cute storytime read--though today a couple of kids were a little scared of the dragon--even though it just wanted a kiss!
Cute story about a kiss that travels all over a kingdom before the knight can track it down and bring it back to the castle.
I love this children's picture book. It has a prince and the knight is off to catch his goodnight kiss that blew out the window.
A mildly entertaining story that is easily read aloud and kids will greatly enjoy. Solid artwork as well.
I thought the art was great. The art was actually better at telling the story than the words were.
So fun to think about a kiss that haleped tame all kinds of animals! What can your Kiss do?
Cute story that my children thoroughly enjoyed hearing and I enjoyed reading.
My daughter found it boring until the bit with the dragon
An errant kiss puts everyone into g'night mode. I chuckled.
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