Rating: 3/5
This book is all about Sir Gawain, King Arthur’s nephew, who beheads the Green Knight of the Green Chapel. Gawain promises that very night when he beheads the big brute of a giant that in a year and a day he will go to the Green Chapel and have the same punishment put on him.
But course, you can tell what will and won’t happen.
I think that this book is aimed for people about my age – that is, eight years old – and up. There is one slightly gory scene and quite a bit of yucky ‘kissy-wissy-ooh-la-la’, but I think that somebody the same age as me would understand that that is, of course, how the story goes.
Brilliant book – no mistakes from lazy publishers, etc. Then again, I’m that sort of a girl who’d prefer it if Morpurgo left out the ‘kissy-wissy-ooh-la-la’, so I say three stars.