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    King Cudgel's Challenge
    King Cudgel's Challenge
    King Cudgel's Challenge
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    King Cudgel's Challenge

    By Karen Wallace

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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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
    Release dateFeb 17, 2006
    ISBN9781408153260
    King Cudgel's Challenge
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    Karen Wallace

    Karen Wallace is an award-winning author of children's books. Her first novel for older readers, Raspberries on the Yangtze (Simon & Schuster) was shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. The first in her series for younger readers, The Crunchbone Castle Chronicles, published by A&C Black, was selected for the Summer Reading Challenge in 2006. The Goosepimple Bay Sagas was a World Book Day recommended read in 2008 and Li Fu's Great Aim was chosen for the recent Boys into Books promotion.

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      King Cudgel's Challenge - Karen Wallace

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      Chapter One

      King Cudgel screamed and screamed. The sound that came out was somewhere between a squeak and a whimper.

      A mouse pushed its furry face through a patch of grass. ‘What’s your problem?’ it demanded angrily.

      King Cudgel stared into a pair of hard beady eyes and realised to his horror that he was the same size as the mouse! No wonder he sounded so squeaky! No wonder no one had heard him calling! He clambered onto a stone and shouted:

      ‘I am King Cudgel of Crunchbone Castle! Ruler of this kingdom! Help! Help!’

      Suddenly the ground shook, and two voices the king knew so well filled the air. The sound was like a giant’s fingernails scraping across a blackboard.

      ‘It’s my kingdom!’ screamed Prince Marvin.

      ‘No, it’s mine!’ yelled Princess Gusty Ox.

      King Cudgel froze with horror. Any minute now, his children would crush him underfoot. And they wouldn’t even notice! Worst of all, they wouldn’t even care.

      King Cudgel jumped down from his stone.

      ‘Please! Please!’ he begged the mouse, who was still staring at him. ‘Can I hide in your nest? It’s my children, you see. They’ll—’

      ‘Will you promise to stop squeaking?’ interrupted the mouse.

      ‘Promise,’ whimpered King Cudgel.

      The ground shook. The terrible shouting grew louder.

      The mouse pointed up to a ball of woven straw attached to the long stiff grass. ‘Help yourself!’ it said.

      King Cudgel ran as fast as his tiny legs would carry him. He

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