Sir Gadabout and the Little Horror

Sir Gadabout

by Martyn Beardsley, Tony Ross (Illustrator)

Owing to a shortage of suitable knights, Sir Gadabout is entrusted with escorting one of King Arthur's children to Camelot. The beastly brat gives him the slip and poor Sir Gads ends up in terrible trouble—not surprising, since he is the worst knight in the world.

96 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2002

About the author

Martyn Beardsley has lived in Nottingham all his life. A civil servant for many years, he is now concentrating on his writing career. As well as being a children's author, one of his great passions is history. In 2002 he published a biography of Sir John Franklin, the Arctic explorer. A committed Buddhist, he is interested in reading, sport, keep-fit and yoga. Martyn Beardsley is married with one daughter.

Reviews

[Heather · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is part of a series containing the character Sir Gadabout. He is described as the worst knight in the world yet, due to a shortage of knights, he is entrusted with the task of escorting one of King Arthur's children to Camelot. Along with Sir Gadabout's lack of skills and King Arthur's misleading, mischievous son they get into a lot of trouble on the way. The book is very descriptive but it is repetitive in the storyline and the descriptions. The boy gets them into trouble every step of their journey as he is constantly lying. The talking cat who is travelling with them is the only one who realises the boy is lying. At the end of the book the cat manages to trick the boy into proving he has been lying the whole journey. Even though he has been caught out, the boy does not receive any kind of consequence for his actions. To me, this is showing the reader you can lie and not worry about the outcome.

For me personally I didn't find this book that interesting to read. I found it was quite repetitive with not much of a storyline. It mentions David Beckham and 'Who wants to be a millionaire?' at the start of the book. However, apart from getting the reader interested, these references have no other point in the story. Being so descriptive you do get a good idea of how the characters would act and what they would look like, though I found the actual storyline to be lacking in imagination.

[Natalie 5 · Rating 5 out of 5]

IN this story there is a castle named soggysock that was a very unusal name.There was Herbert that had a squire .Merlin thougt the squire a spell .



I like this beacuse it's funny.One funny thing happened is underwear and one serouis thing happend is Herbert has a squire.