Description
Book SynopsisBrilliantly funny adventure, featuring magic, dragons and knights. For Fans of Shrek.
Odo (seventh child of the village miller) and Eleanor (always looking for adventure) stumble upon a sword in a dried-up river outside their village. Eleanor (strong and able) tries to extract the sword but is unable to, and it is Odo who is surprisingly successful. It is even more surprising that the sword,once pulled out, starts to talk. And rather annoying when the talking sword turns out to be rather grumpy, stubborn, and, at times, catastrophically wrong.
Odo and Eleanor have unearthed Biter, a famous knightly sword from earlier times. By finding Biter, Odo instantly becomes a knight -- a role he is exquisitely unsuited for. Eleanor, however, is desperate to become and would be the perfect knight -- but she's not the one with the sword.
Finding Biter is only the start - reluctant knight, reluctant squire, and determined sword must go on a quest to save their kingdom from threats in both human and dragon form, in this new very funny fantasy triumph from Garth Nix and Sean Williams.
Trade Reviewa fast-paced, tongue-in-cheek adventure featuring memorable heroes, an entertaining premise, and not one but two magical swords with way too much personality...[an] enjoyable spin on the age-old hero's journey, filled with action and humor * Publishers' Weekly *
Odo thirteen years old though tall and strong for his age, a misfit in his village as much as Eleanor, Have Sword, Will Travel, is perfect reading for that age, with likeable characters with a strong sense of responsbility, a healthy friendship and a conviction to do what is right, their adventures soon to continue in Let Sleeping Dragons Lie, published simultaneously * Geek Chocolate *
A lovely comic adventure that has dragons, knights, a quest and all that adventure-lovers of 9+ would love * New Statesman *
