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A review by brucefarrar
Knights of the Kitchen Table by Lane Smith, Jon Scieszka
4.0
For his birthday Joe receives The Book from his Uncle Joe, or to use his stage name, Joe the Magnificent. Uncle Joe is a magician and The Book is really magic. So when Joe’s friend Fred, opens The Book to the picture of a fierce knight in black armor, and says to Joe and their friend Sam, “'Wouldn’t it be great to see knights and all that stuff for real?’ Wisps of pale green mist began to swirl around” them, and the three “find themselves facing death by shish-kebab” on the lance of the charging Black Knight!
Scieszka's short time travel fantasy, aptly illustrated by Smith, is fast and funny. The boys outwit the Black Knight, a giant and a dragon, and impress King Arthur and his court. The giant with his bodily noises, odors, and mucus supplies a good dollop of gross-out humor that will hit the intended audience right in their developmentally appropriate senses of humor.
Scieszka's short time travel fantasy, aptly illustrated by Smith, is fast and funny. The boys outwit the Black Knight, a giant and a dragon, and impress King Arthur and his court. The giant with his bodily noises, odors, and mucus supplies a good dollop of gross-out humor that will hit the intended audience right in their developmentally appropriate senses of humor.