Good Knight, Bad Knight and the Big Game

Tom Knight (Author, Illustrator) Tom Knight is an illustrator from the east coast of England. After ten years of working as a graphic designer, he realised that true happiness lay in drawing pictures in his garden shed. He has illustrated several picture books for other writers, including The Big Bed by Bunmi Laditan. Good Knight, Bad Knight (Templar) was his first book as author and illustrator. He is also author ofJimmy Finnigan's Wild Wood Band (Templar) and Good Knight Big Knight and the Big Game (Templar.

Author and illustrator Tom Knight, the magical master of gloriously comical picture books and the creator of Good Knight, Bad Knight, returns with a hilarious new middle grade series starring those charismatic rival knights. From danger and drama to rhymes and laugh-out-loud adventures, this is an entertaining and time-honoured fiction formula that will delight both children and parents. Berkley Paggle is a bad knight and his cousin Godwin is a good knight. At least that's the way things used to be. Last term Berk defeated a dragon with his troll-breath stink bomb in a jousting match and when he comes back to school, he discovers that his dragon-battling abilities have made him the most popular kid in class. Berk loves the attention and joins the school bladderball team so he can hang out with the cool knights. Berk lets his popularity go to his head and doesn't have time for Godwin and his best friend Warrick any more... until Godwin discovers that Warrick is dabbling in dark magic and needs Berk's help. Brimming with Knight's lively, high-energy illustrations and a madcap story that delivers, spills, thrills, laughs and mishaps, this is the perfect series for mischievous youngsters and an appealing adventure for reluctant readers.