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Knights of the Kitchen Table

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BfK No. 81 - July 1993

Cover Story
The illustration (by George Smith) on our front cover this month is taken from Pete Johnson's Everything Changes (see the Pete Johnson Authorgraph for details). We are grateful to Reed Books for their help in using this cover.

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Knights of the Kitchen Table

Jon Scieszka
Illustrated by Lane Smith
(Puffin Books)
978-0140363982, RRP £3.50, Paperback
8-10 Junior/Middle
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Three American schoolkids find themselves in Camelot after making an injudicious wish while in the presence of The Book, a gift from a magician. Once they have inveigled themselves into the court of King Arthur, they have to cope with another magician, the jealous Merlin, who puts their bona fides as enchanters to the test by arranging an encounter with a belching, farting, snot-spouting giant. In this eventful little book the creators of The True Story of the Three Little Pigs have created another enjoyable parody, deflating the chivalrous Arthurian image and reflating it with some authentically malodorous medieval fumes. A good one to share with the Juniors over two or three story times.

Reviewer: 
George Hunt
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