The Lioness and Her Knight By Gerald Morris.

In which Luneta leaves home with her cousin Ywain to go visit her mother's friend Laudine. On the way they meet a fool named Rhience and they stop at Camelot. Rhience tells them about a magical stone that is guarded by a large knight. After many adventures, never-hungry hermits, magic lessons, Luneta almost being burned at the stake, and saving women from sewing, Ywain gets the title The Knight of The Lion and the Lady.


Here's a fun fact: Luneta's parents are Lynt and Gaheris from The Savage Damsel and the Dwarf! (And Ywain's parents are Garth and Lyonesse) Lady Laudine is very pretty but...well...she is as smart as the bird that flies into a window. The author got the story from a 12th-century poem called "The Knight of the Lion" by Chretien De Troyes. In the poem there was a smart young lady who brought Ywain and Laudine together. He added Rhience and changed the lion to a lioness. There is one scene that I liked a lot (well there's really lots of scenes that I liked but this is just one) where Luneta walks into Gawain's room scaring him and Terence. It leads to a very funny conversation.

This in the Squire's Tales series.

Recommended for people who like: smart fools, adventures, magic, and evil stewards.

The Princess, The Crone, and the Dung-Cart Knight by Gerald Morris.

In which Sarah, a young girl looking for the murderer who killed both her mother and her guardian, meets Sir Kai (who teaches her swordplay) and a lovely lady. When Sarah sees Kai and the lady,who turns out to be Queen Guinevere, being kidnapped she goes to get help. She tells King Arthur the bad news. The King sends Gawain, Terence, and Sarah out to go save the Queen and knight. After many adventures, persistent holy-salesmen, knights incognito, mysterious crones and cheerful faeries they get to a magical realm where wounds never heal. They meet a King with no more brains than a goldfish, and a smart princess, and then an evil knight plans to force Guinevere to marry him. Can he be stopped?


I know what you're thinking "Dung-cart knight?!" but have no fears he's only being practical. I think this was my favorite book of the series (although it's very hard because I have SOOO many favorite books). I loved Sarah who is very stubborn and spunky. It was so fun to again meet Piers, Ariel, Terence, and Gawain. The evil knight is called Sir (if you can call him Sir) Meliagant. when I read these to my brother we called in Sir Smellygant. To get into the realm of Meliagant, Sarah and the dung-cart knight (and no, I am not telling you who he is) cross a cool bridge.


This is in the Squire's Tales series.


Recommend for people who like: Spunky girls, fake holy-men, cool crones, and magic.

The Ballad of Sir Dinadan by Gerald Morris

In which Dinadan wants to be a minstrel but is bound to be a knight. One night his father sends him out. He meets a young Welsh knight named Culloch. Together they go to King Arthur's court. When they leave they meet another king and have many adventures. Dinadan leaves Culloch and goes all over England playing his magical music. He meets lots of people including a strange silent knight. After saving a lady and giving a man his throne back Dinadan becomes the most musical knight in all England.

Some of Dinadan's songs are funny and the remarks people make are even more funny. Dinadan's older brother Tristram has made a vow of silence. Never will he speak of his love (and he goes on to tell Dinadan "to speak of the gold of her flaxen hair, to tell of the blue of her eyes, to express my love for her would only harm me.") When Dinadan offers to ride in silence Tristram says "It would be to tear open my wound yet again, for every word I speak of her is as a red coal pressed to my breast, searing me to the very heart. Nay, I can not even speak my own, for to tell my own name is to speak of her, for what is Tristram but the slave of Iseult?" That Tristram talks constantly of his vow of silence is very funny!!

This is in the Squire's Tales series.

Recommended for people who like: Ballads, Tristram and Iseult's story, and laughing out loud!

Parsifal's Page by Gerald Morris

In which Piers, who wants to be a page, and Parsifal, a woodsman who wants to be a knight, meet a nice old man who knows a lot about being polite and they live three months with him. Then they continue traveling and after many adventures with Parsifal and the knight Gawain, Piers learns more about his father (who may not be who he seems. . .)

Before this book I had never heard of Parsifal (I had never heard of Gawain before these books either but never mind that). In the author's note, Morris tells you how some of the names in these stories are spelled in many different ways, and explains why he chose the spellings he did for his retelling. For example, here are a lot of ways to spell Parsifal's name, you can spell it Percival, Parzival, Parsifal, or Peredur. All of these different spellings are from different places which I think is so cool! I can't wait till you meet Ariel, a water nymph who is so fun to read about. Happy reading!

This is in the Squire's Tales series.

Recommended for people who like: red armor, magical castles, and adventure.

The Savage Damsel and the Dwarf by Gerald Morris

In which Lady Lynet lives in a castle that is under siege by the evil Red Knight who wants to marry her older sister. One night Lynet sneaks out to go get help. She meets a dwarf named Roger on the way. When she gets to King Arthur's court nobody will help her except for a kitchen knave called Beaumains. After many adventures, fights, and colorful knights, Lynet, Roger, and Beau (as they call him) get to the castle and Beau defeats the Red Knight! But her older sister won't marry Beau until he tells her what his name is. Lynet learns to be an enchantress and saves Roger who has been taken prisoner by her sister only to learn something new.

This is a very funny book to read. I loved Lynet and Roger the Dwarf. (You don't find out who Beau really is until the end of the book.) You will meet old characters like Terence, Eileen, Gawain, and Morgan Le Fay. Lynet was a new character.

This is in the Squire's Tales series.

Recommended for people who like: Strong-minded women, knights incognito, damsels in distress (although, really who does like damsels in distress? So dependent!) and happy endings.

The Squire, His Knight, and His Lady by Gerald Morris

In which Terence and Gawain are at the Christmas feast when a large knight all dressed in green comes and challenges any knight to play his game, to chop of the Green Knight's head tonight only to have his (whichever knight takes the challenge) head chopped of in one year. The King, being sad because his Queen has fallen in love with Sir Lancelot, says he will play. Gawain stops him and accepts the challenge. So Gawain and Terence go to find the green knight. Gawain is captured by a evil Marquis. Terence goes to the Marquis's castle and he saves Gawain with the help of the Marquis's niece Lady Eileen who runs away with them. They get into the Other World and find a magical castle with a silly lord and stay before they meet the Green Knight.

I love this book! There are a lot of funny-laugh out loud, happy, and scary scenes in this book. (It is hard to do reviews for these books because there is adventure on every page!) The author Gerald Morris has made up some characters like Terence and Eileen to make the stories more fun but most of the characters are from the Medieval versions of th stories like Sir Alan, Sir Lancelot, Sir Gawain, and Parsifal.

This is book 2 in the Squire's Tales series.

Recommended for people who like: Kings incognito, mythical wild woodsmen, short-tempered ladies, and Sir Wozzle.

The Squire's Tale by Gerald Morris

In which Terence lives with the hermit Trevisant (who can see the future but not the past). Terence meets Gawain, who is going to King Arthur's court to become a knight, and goes along to be his squire. They meet Tor who wants to be a knight too. When they get there the King gets married to the lovely young Guinevere. But on the wedding night a large stag and hound run on the tables! Then a ugly woman on a donkey comes after the animals and tells the Arthur to send two knights to go after the deer and dog. Sir Gawain, Squire Terence, and Sir Tor go. After many adventures, battles, bloodthirsty women, and strange lovers they meet Nimue who leads Gawain and Terence to a magical land where they learn new things.

The author turned these old Arthurian stories into modern versions. At the end of the book the author tells you what people he took from the old versions the main one being Le Morte d'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory. They are so much fun to read. They are funny and full of adventure! You meet Morgan Le Fay (Gawain's Aunt) the evil Morgause (Gawain's mother) and Arthur who I just love! He is very humble, peaceful, and loves his Knights, people and country.

This is book 1 in the Squire's Tales series.

Recommended for people who like: Arthurian stories, Sir Gawain, and ADVENTURE.