Adam Blade’s Ferno the Fire Dragon is a fast, fiery adventure for 7 year olds about a blacksmith’s boy who finally gets the quest he’s wished for all his life.<\/p>\n
Tom practises sword fighting on a sack of hay, using a poker. His dad left on a mysterious quest when Tom was a baby and never came back. What Tom wants most is a real adventure, and to find out why his father went.<\/p>\n
Then strange things start happening around his village. A wheat field burns to black stubble in minutes. The river runs low. So Tom sets off for the king’s palace to ask for help.<\/p>\n
Getting in is the tricky bit! There’s an enormous queue and a clerk who can’t hear a word anyone says. So Tom sneaks in with a pretend kitchen delivery and ends up carrying a platter into the king’s own dinner.<\/p>\n
That’s where he learns the truth. The Beasts from the old bedtime stories are real. An evil wizard has put them under a spell, and a fire dragon is the one burning the crops.<\/p>\n
The king gives Tom a key to unlock the dragon’s enchanted collar. The wizard Aduro gives him a map that comes alive under his fingers, a sword and a very plain wooden shield. There’s a black horse called Storm, and on the road he meets Elenna, a girl with a bow, and her wolf, Silver.<\/p>\n
The pace is what makes it. Short chapters, cliffhanger endings and a hero who says ‘I will’ without a second’s thought. Elenna is every bit as brave as Tom, which is lovely to see.<\/p>\n
The opening pages are fierce, though. A knight climbs a mountain that turns out to be the dragon, and all his squire finds afterwards is the knight’s empty armour, scorched and smoking. A farmer’s horses have already been taken, and only their roasted bones are left. A child who frightens easily might want to read those first pages with you. A dragon fan will probably be hooked straight away.<\/p>\n
If your reader loves Tom’s courage and fancies trying the same author under the sea, Cephalox the Cyber Squid has a boy, a robot dog and a submarine he really shouldn’t have borrowed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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