Copyright Date:
2022
Edition Date:
2022
Release Date:
11/01/22
Pages:
150 pages
ISBN:
Publisher: 1-534-49928-8 Perma-Bound: 0-8000-3092-3
ISBN 13:
Publisher: 978-1-534-49928-7 Perma-Bound: 978-0-8000-3092-6
Dewey:
Fic
LCCN:
2021016530
Dimensions:
20 cm.
Language:
English
Reviews:
Kirkus Reviews
Princess Grace of Merryland needs rescuing again, forcing two young knights-in-training to face a series of challenges, from hungry cave sharks to a minotaur named Chad.Actually, Princess Grace is perfectly capable of rescuing herself-again: see Once Upon a Tim (2022)-except that this time, kidnappers have stashed her in a room that's locked and bolted on the outsideâ¦and in the middle of a maze billed, supposedly, as "the most complex and dastardly labyrinth in the world." So it is that former peasants Tim and his more capable friend Bull-otherwise known as Belinda when she's not disguised as a boy-plunge into a mess of dark and bewildering tunnels, armed with a ball of twine provided by the surprisingly sapient village idiot Ferkle, to face a series of deadly threatsâ¦though the most legendary of all turns out to be an amiable monster with the body of a bull and the head of, well, a dude. Throughout Gibbs' lighthearted, laugh-out-loud tale, Curtis supplies proper notes of farce or stark terror as appropriate in flurries of line drawings that present most of the humans and the monsters with human features as White, though Belinda appears to present as Black. Along the way, Tim adds educational value to his narrative by flagging and then pausing to define vocabulary-building words like laborious and vexing.A lighter-than-air blend of knightly exploits and rib-tickling twists. (Fantasy. 10-12)
Chapter One: How I Started My Day
Excerpted from The Labyrinth of Doom by Stuart Gibbs
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Knight-in-training Tim and his best friend, Belinda, embark on a quest to save Princess Grace in this second book in the hilarious, highly illustrated Once Upon a Tim middle grade series from New York Times bestselling author Stuart Gibbs.
Prince Ruprecht is VERY UPSET that knights-in-training, Tim and Belinda, have thwarted his plans and ruined his chances with Princess Grace. And so, to get even, he has kidnapped the princess and trapped her in the most complicated, dangerous, complex, dastardly, biggest (okay you get the point)…and scariest maze in all the world!
Now it’s up to Tim, Belinda, Ferkle, and Rover to fend off menacing beasts (like the minotaur), conquer treacherous obstacles (like chasms filled with cave sharks), find their way through the labyrinth (which is very tricky), and rescue the princess before time runs out. Oh, and also they need to remember how to get back out again…or they’ll be trapped inside the maze forever.