Igraine the Brave(Hardback)

By: Cornelia Funke

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Hardcover | 1 May 2014

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Igraine is a high-spirited princess living in a fairytale castle with her eccentric magician parents, her older brother who longs to be the new Merlin (but whose tricks are always going wrong) and her talking cat. She dreams of becoming a famous kni ght like her great-grandfather, riding in tournaments and honouring the family name. But instead, life is rather boring.

Until the day the unscrupulous nephew of the Baroness next door arrives with his horrible henchman, intent on capturing both the castle and her parents' wonderful singing magic books. Worse still, at the very moment of the attack, her brother's latest spell goes wrong and her parents are turned into pigs!

Igraine sets out to save the day, and with the help of a Gentle Giant and a Sorrowful Knight manages to put everything right (and rescue her parents) while learning the true meaning of chivalry.

Industry Reviews

The author of Princess Knight (2004) offers a longer tale along the same lines, here in its first English translation. Uninterested in becoming a magician like her parents and older brother, Igraine delights in feats of arms. Though a spellcasting error - that transforms her parents into non-magical pigs - casts a shadow on her 12th birthday, she is dazzled by the suit of magic armor they present her. It arrives just in time, too, because shortly thereafter, thuggish Osmund the Greedy arrives at the castle gates with an army, intent on seizing the resident library of talking grimoires. Will the castle's magical defenses hold out long enough for Igraine to steal a fast horse from under Osmund's nose, find a giant willing to give up the hair necessary for a parent-restoring spell, rescue an unaggressive dragon from hunters and help a sad knight who teaches her the rules of chivalry to defeat Osmund's supposedly undefeatable Castellan? Do you doubt? Illustrated with pen-and-ink sketches of Igraine in action, plus many tiny tomes sporting stubby limbs and animated faces, this engaging read, or read-aloud, is "joust" the ticket for all young fans of non-gender-specific knightly valor. (Fantasy. 9-11) (Kirkus Reviews)

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