"Snuff, at this rate it will be a very long time before we make a knight out of you."
Snuff can't wait to be a knight and have lots of adventures, Sir Thomas Magpie despairs of him, as Snuff doesn't always get things right. But when the Bootmaker is raided by thieves, Snuff might just have an idea of how to save the day . . .
"Blake is beyond brilliant . . . I've never met a child who doesn't love Quentin Blake" DAILY TELEGRAPH
Quentin Blake is one of Britain's best-loved and most successful author-illustrators, and was made the first Children's Laureate in 1999. He has won the Whitbread Award, the Hans Christian Award for Illustration, and the Kate Greenaway Medal among others.