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Title: Good Night, Good Knight (Easy-to-Read, Puffin)
ISBN: 0142302015
Author:
Shelley Moore Thomas
Publicate Date: 2002-10-14
Publish: 2002-10-14
List Price: $3.99
Average Customer Rating: 5.0
Format: Paperback
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1: We just love this series!!!
My four year old girl has been enamored with dragons for a couple of years, and has lately gotten very interested in knights, castles, etc. I quickly found that there is very little out there that is appropriate for smaller children, on the subject of knights. Either the information is too complex, or more likely, too gruesome for my taste. When I discovered this sweet series, I immediately wanted all of them.
I really like the way the verses flow and how the author repeats the action over and over. The knight hears a roar, and "left the crumbly, tumbly tower. He climbed down the very tall wall. He jumped on his horse. "Away!" he said He galloped through the king's forest. Clippety-clop. Clippety-clop.". He finds each dragon, one trip at a time, then at the end all three, requesting the typical things a kid asks for when avoiding sleep-a glass of water, a story, etc. Then he goes back to his castle, "through the king's forest. Clippety-clop. Clippety-clop. He got off his horse. Thud. He climbed up the very tall wall to the crumbly tumbly tower.", where he watches and over and over hears a roar, that he follows back to the dragon cave. Each time the description is the same and my child loves that! "Clippety-clop. Clippety-clop." is fun to say and all of the rest of what I wrote above, is fun to anticipate. With each roar heard by the knight, she gave me a knowing look and said, "uh oh!", and we laughed and said the words in unison, once she had them memorized.
These are just fun books. I'm glad my library has them, but we are buying them too, so we can read them whenever we want! It is a refreshing angle to the knight and dragon relationship. Nearly everything else I found was adversarial, and since we love dragons, I was sorry about that.
If you have a child who loves knights and dragons, also check out Tomie Paola's The Knight and the Dragon, about a knight reading up on how to fight dragons and a dragon reading up on how to fight knights. The "fight" is hilarious and the end has a clever twist that delighted my child and me too!
The Reluctant dragon, by Kenneth Grahame, is either for an older child who can read, or a great read aloud that my four year old enjoyed, and there is a neat old Disney movie based on this book. We loved this too.
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2: Very sweet, very simple - love it
This is, I believe, the first in the Good Knight series. We borrowed it from a friend while we were in California, because we simply Did Not Have Enough Books! (In our household, 400 books isn't nearly enough by far, so how we thought we'd live a week with only 7, I don't know.)
As you can guess, some of the humor in this book comes from the fact that Good Knight and Good Night sound alike - my five year old niece pointed that out to me several times, and then asked why "Knight" has a K in it. (I didn't point out that it also has a g and an h. Why confuse the matter?)
The knight makes four trips to help put some baby dragons to sleep. Every aspect of the story is explained with simple, repetitive adjectives. His tower is, twice in every trip, "crumbly tumbly". His horse goes "clipety clop" and he shouts "Away!". He stands on watch for ten minutes, five minutes, one minute before heading towards the roar again.
And the dragons are repetitive too. First one dragon wants a drink of water. Then one wants a story, and the first wants ANOTHER drink of water. Then one wants a song, one wants another story, and the first wants YET ANOTHER drink of water. And then... they want... a kiss. (This is going too far!)
But he's a good knight, the Good Knight, so he helps tuck them in every time to get them ready for bed, before finally snuggling into his own bed at the end.
My nieces loved it, and still talk about it a few weeks after coming home. We'll have to get our own copy. I found the style very easy, and the story just long enough for older children, but just fast enough for those days when you really need everybody asleep NOW. A bit much in parts (especially the umpteenth time through), but after you've read it that much you can demand that *they* read (or "read") it to you!
Maybe not a must-have, but very, very close.
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3: Great Bedtime Read
I love to read this to my son. It's a sweet little story and the illustrations of the dragons make you want to reach out and hug them. This book has a repetitive scene, which I really like. Similar to a song, each part of the story is a different stanza bound together by a repeating chorus. It allows my son to anticipate what the Knight is going to do. I throw in some sound effects and it makes the "chorus" a favorite part.
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Pam Pate
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5: Sweet and clever book
We love most books about dragons and knights. This one is very sweet and my 4 year old loves it. I can't wait til he's the one that begins to read it. The dragons need help going to sleep at night and the knight in shining armor is the one for the job even though its not what he expected. Its silly and fun and is great bedtime reading.
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