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Catweazle was a magician who lived in the eleventh century,
but however hard he tried, his spells hardly ever worked.
Then one day was different. First of all he had two bad
omens - a bad dream and an owl hooting in daylight. Then
Norman soldiers tried to capture him, so in desperation
he used some magic, and it worked! The only trouble was
that it had worked in the wrong way: Catweazle flew through
Time instead of Space, and ended up in a place Hexwood Farm,
nine centuries later, where of course he thought everything
he saw - motor cars, telephones, electric light ('Electrickery')
- all happened by magic.
How Catweazle is befriended by the farmer's son, Carrot,
and how he finds his feet in the twentieth century, while
hiding from the world in a water tower, makes a riotously
funny story, as anyone who has watched the London Weekend
Television serial of Catweazle will know.
For readers of eight and over.
Author: Richard Carpenter.
Published by: Puffin Books.
Front Cover: London Weekend International Limited.
ISBN 0 14 03.0465 7 |
'Thou great Norman lump!' muttered Catweazle the magician.
'If I conjure till Doomsday, I cannot make thee gold,' and
there was a sympathetic croak from his familiar, Touchwood.
Even the world of Elecrickery had been better than this,
thought Catweazle bitterly.
They were captives, imprisoned in the deepest of Farthing
Castle at the behest of the great Norman lord, William de
Collynforde, and likely to remain so unless Catweazle's
magic worked for once, and he managed to fly from the accursed
castle.
Fly he did, but once again it was through time, not space.
Hurling himself, full of faith, from the battlements, Catweazle
landed splosh in the moat - but the castle had vanished!
In its place was a large white house with a clock tower
with a little turret on top. Cedric Collingford, the boy
who lived in the house, was to be his ally in a new series
of magical and hilarious adventures, in which Catweazle
seeks the 'Thirteenth Sign' of the Zodiac which he believes
will help him fly back to his own time, and Cedric hopes
to restore his family fortune by finding the lost Collingford
treasure.
Catweazle's presence produces just as many hilarious situations
as it did in the first book, Catweazle.
For readers of eight and over.
Author: Richard Carpenter.
Published by: Puffin Books.
Front Cover: London Weekend International.
ISBN 0 14 03.0499 1 |
