Sir Gadabout Goes Overboard Bk.6

Description

The world's worst knight - in a brilliant, swashbuckling adventure on the high seas!

Promotion info

Blackadder for children. Great characters - a chaotic knight, a sarcastic ginger cat and a mad turtle - in a zany adventure in Camelot. Funny, laugh out loud adventures - perfect for boys and girls. Short accessible chapters - ideal for reluctant readers. The next step up from Horrid Henry. Illustrations by the popular Tony Ross. Perfect for reading aloud or alone.

Reviews

"The chaotic adventures are a comic delight." Waterstone's Books Quarterly, Issue 12, 2004 "...a lively read that never dawdles, nor leaves any joke unmade...Tony Ross brings the story to life with his loose line drawings." Booktrusted News (Booktrust), Issue 8

Author description

Martyn Beardsley was born, and has spent his life, in Nottingham. A civil servant for many years, he gave it up to concentrate on a writing career. Apart from being a children's author, one of his great passions is history and 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.