Get Well, Good Knight

This book is about a knight trying to care for his three little dragon friends. The knight keeps bring soup to the dragons but they will not eat any of the soups until they get some chicken soup! This book would be great if you had a sick child who would not eat chicken soup for example. ( )

The Good Knight hears the three dragons sneezing in the forest, so he rushes off to the wizard for a something to make his friends better. However, the wizard's concoctions are rejected by the dragons as being too smelly and too slimy, and the Good Knight must find a cure for their colds elsewhere.

The story is fun, silly and repetitive in a way appreciated by young readers. The Good Knight's character displays an entertaining amount of Medieval-esque melodrama (“Fear not, good dragons!” he cries before he's off to seek assistance from the wizard), not unlike a child pretending to be a knight in shining armor. The art is charming, the Good Knight-- and his horse-- sport looks of deep concern at the dragon's plight, and the dragons' soup-rejecting faces are adorable and funny, as are their looks of increasing suspicion for every new potion the Good Knight brings to them. Incidental images abound for a reader's amusement; the toys in the dragons' cave are delightfully anachronistic (including a soccer ball and music player with headphones), cats carry around ingredients and consult recipes while helping the wizard, and the walls of the Good Knight's mother's house are adorned with framed photographs of her son in armor and on horseback. This easy reader will certainly entertain an elementary school child. ( )

AD120L,GRL K,6 copies

AD120L,GRL K,6 copies

AD120L,GRL K,6 copies