Get Well, Good Knight (Dutton Easy Reader) [Hardcover]

Shelley Moore Thomas (Author), Jennifer Plecas (Illustrator)

Book Description

Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up | Series: Dutton Easy Reader

Cough cough. Sniffle sniffle. Achoo!

The much-heralded Good Knight and his three little dragons are back-only this time the dragons are sick in bed. They need the Good Knight to come to the rescue again and tend to their sniffy, drippy noses and fevery heads. The dragons refuse to take anything yucky, so he has to come up with a special cure. Because he is a Good Knight, he does. Soon the dragons feel much better, but...Achoo! Get Well, Good Knight!

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

PreSchool-Grade 2-As in Good Night, Good Knight (Dutton, 2000), Thomas and Plecas bring engaging twists to familiar story elements for beginning readers. Here the knight finds his three little dragon friends suffering with terrible colds and the noble fellow sets off to seek a healing potion. The wizard's "scaly, snail-y soup" is too dreadful to eat and his slimy, grimy brew equally distasteful, so the knight asks his mother for help. With a "little of this and a little of that," she prepares a delicious cure. Plecas's cartoon illustrations have requisite picture clues, cheerful colors, and lots of details. Ingredients for the wizard's concoctions are printed in bold type over the steam coming from his pot. Dragons whose expressions are oh-so-miserably sick miraculously beam with health and vitality on the last page. This is a royal treat to soothe any beginning reader's blues and will inspire repeated readings.
Laura Scott, Baldwin Public Library, Birmingham, MI
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist

K-Gr. 2. In this Dutton Easy Reader, a sequel to Good Night, Good Knight (2000), the Good Knight gallops through the forest to find out who is sneezing. He soon finds a cave where three feverish little dragons lie coughing and sniffling. Answering the knight's plea for help, a wizard concocts first a "scaly snail-y soup," then a "slimy grimy soup," but neither is palatable enough to swallow. When the Good Knight's mother makes chicken soup, though, the little dragons slurp the cure down. A plot summary does little justice to a book that goes beyond good narrative structure and simple words to create a tale that is always winning and frequently funny. The subject and the appealing ink-and-watercolor illustrations will attract young readers, but a great deal of the book's charm lies in the telling. Excellent for young readers and for reading aloud to younger children who are intrigued by knights and dragons. Carolyn Phelan
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 4 and up
  
• Hardcover: 48 pages
• Publisher: Dutton Juvenile (October 14, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0525469141
• ISBN-13: 978-0525469148
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 6.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.3 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,009,087 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Good Knight comes through again!, March 8, 2004

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J. L. Pielak "PieSquared" (Rochester Hills, MI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Get Well, Good Knight (Dutton Easy Reader) (Hardcover)

If you and your children loved Good Night, Good Knight, you'll love this book. Once again, the Good Knight helps those cute little dragons - this time with their colds. You'll love the remedy that finally works (Mom's chicken soup) and the cute ending. My kids are 5 and 8, and they both enjoyed it.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars We just love this series!!!, September 19, 2008

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Jen B (VA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Get Well, Good Knight (Penguin Young Readers, L3) (Paperback)

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.
I was amused and pleased that the knight finally turns to his own mother, when the magician was unable to create a concoction to help heal the dragons, and used my favorite remedy-chicken soup! The efforts of the magician provided us much laughter as he mixed, "fish scales, old snails, fingernails, and lizard tails", or "frog slime, old grime, a rusty dime, a rotten lime".
As all of the books, this one has a rhythm that is smooth and pleasant to read and hear. So many rhyming books sound forced and awkward, but none of these Good Knight books fall into this category. I'd give these a two thumbs up!
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.

5.0 out of 5 stars Good Knight is a good story, November 28, 2009

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Deborah Verlen "Deborah" (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Get Well, Good Knight (Penguin Young Readers, L3) (Paperback)

"Once there were three little dragons. They lived in a dark cave." And so starts Get Well, Good Knight (Puffin Easy-to-Read). For the beginning reader, the story is interesting, the illustrations are adorable, and the words are at their level. If your child likes dragons and knights they will love this book!

The three little dragons are ill and the Good Knight says "Methinks my little dragon friends are not well." He feels their heads which are hot with fever and observes their runny noises and sniffles. The Good Knight runs to the wizard for a cure and gets some truly awful soup. He goes back to the wizard and gets another soup that is truly awful too. Finally the Good Knight goes to see his mother who tells him "Mothers know best" and she makes a delicious soup for the little dragons.

The story has some repetitiveness that kids like, some rhyming and some suspense. The story also has a little surprise in the ending which may have your kids chuckling!