Read-It! Chapter Books
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Pity King Cudgel! His twin children - Prince Marvin the Meek and Princess Gusty Ox - fight all the time. And ever since his wife, Queen Carrion, disappeared after going out dragon hunting, no one has been able to stop them. As a last resort he devises a challenge for them with the help of Cackle the court magician. If the twins fail, King Cudgel will hand over the kingdom to their soppy cousin, Godric, the Geek - an unbearable thought! King Cudgel's Challenge follows the painful and hilarious process of Prince Marvin and Princess Gusty Ox as they learn to get on with each other and is the first title in a series of laugh-out-loud historical adventures.
Poor Prince Marvin, the Meek! His twin sister, Princess Gusty Ox may be built like a battle ship but Marvin has always been a bit...physically feeble. It's not surprising his sister bullies him. But, when his father King Cudgel's best suits are ruined by mysterious globs of green gloop, things get even worse. It seems that Harry the Hairy Green Giant has caught a cold and the King orders Prince Marvin to sort him out. If Prince Marvin can cure the giant and prove himself, his sister won't be able to bully him any more. But first he needs a little help from Crackle the court magician...This is the second laugh-a-minute historical adventure in The Crunchbone Castle Chronicles.
Alice is an anteater who lives in the jungle and eats ants - as anteaters do. But one day Alice decides what she really wants to be is a film star. So she paints her toenails pink, dresses up in a frilly satin dress, and catches the first plane to Hollywood. Soon Alice is the talk of the town and her picture is in all the magazines. There's just one problem - will she ever get to star in a film?
Gusty Ox is not your typical princess. She's more interested in wrestling crocodiles and hunting dragons than in tiaras and princes. That is, until she looks into Crackel's magic mirror and decides things have got to change. But it isn't easy being a proper princess and things only get worse when her rival, Princess Lulu the Luscious, comes to stay. This is the third riotous romp in The Crunchbone Castle Chronicles.
King Cudgel keeps having nightmares about Queen Carrion and a bear and wonders if these could reveal the whereabouts of his missing wife. So he consults Crackle the Court Magician, who finds out that strong magic is at work. If the King ever wants to see his Queen again, he needs to go deep into the forest in search of the wicked fur witch. In this fourth and final title in the uproarious Crunchbone Castle Chronicles we find the truth behind the disappearance of Queen Carrion.
Lettuce Leef and Nimble Charlie, the Crook Catchers to the Queen, investigate the disappearance of the queen's recipe for minestrone soup--as well as her clothing.
The Queen is being tricked by a cunning prankster -she's in danger of giving away all her jewels. Can the Crook Catchers get to the bottom of this hair-raising scam before it's too late?