Sir Gadabout and the Camelot Calamity
Author(s): Martyn Beardsley
Morag and Demelza, Sir Gadabout's old adversaries, have taken over the pet shop in Camelot village. They have adopted elaborate disguises and are keeping the real owner under lock and key, intending to cause so much chaos at the Round Table that they can move in and install themselves as King and Queen, with their ridiculous claim to the throne backed up by doctored family trees. The knights at Camelot begin to realise that their pet food is having a strange effect, and that pets they have bought from the shop aren't all they expected; Sir Gadabout himself has a little lizard which grows rapidly into a crocodile and terrifies everyone. The cause of the problem is eventually traced back to the pet shop and our determined knight is sent to investigate, resulting in the usual mayhem.
General Information
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- : 104129
- : 104129
- : 0.084
- : 07 August 2008
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Martyn Beardsley
- : Paperback
- : Tony Ross
- : 823.914
- : 96
- : illustrations
More About The Product
The tenth madcap adventure in the SIR GADABOUT series. Full of puns and clever wit, this is Blackadder for children. SIR GADS is now available in supermarkets as well as bookshops. His previous catastrophe, SIR GADABOUT OUT OF TIME, sold over 2,000 copies in its first month of publication. Great characters - a chaotic, but essentially loveable knight, a sarcastic ginger cat and some suitably dastardly villains. Short accessible chapters make SIR GADABOUT perfect for reading aloud or reading alone, and ideal for reluctant readers. The next step up from Horrid Henry. Distinctive illustrations from the ever-popular Tony Ross.
"Ross's antic line art enhances the high-energy nuttiness of the text." --"Publishers Weekly"
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 and a mad dog. Tony Ross is one of the most popular and successful of all children's illustrators, with many picture books to his name as well as line drawings for many fiction titles.
