Adam Blade’s Tagus the Night Horse is a galloping Beast Quest adventure for 7 year olds about a half-man, half-horse Beast stampeding the cattle of the plains.<\/p>\n
This is Tom’s fourth Beast. He’s already set a fire dragon, a sea serpent and a mountain giant free from the evil wizard Malvel’s spell, and his shield carries a token from each of them. Now he and his friend Elenna ride down to the plains, with Storm the black horse and Silver the wolf running beside them.<\/p>\n
Things go wrong almost straight away. A thousand cattle come stampeding towards them with a prairie fire right behind. Tom jumps down and hacks a firebreak through the tall grass with his sword to save the town of Dareton.<\/p>\n
And how do the people of Dareton thank him? They drag him off to jail, covered in soot, because they think he started it!<\/p>\n
A boy called Victor has gone missing from a cattle drive, and everyone’s heard whispers about a mysterious horseman who attacks the herds at night. A stranger with a horse looks very guilty indeed.<\/p>\n
The jail escape is brilliant. Tom spots a patch of stone worn soft by a dripping leak, begs the guard for food, and stuffs a strip of his shirt into the gap as the door opens. Elenna turns up on Storm under the window with a rope.<\/p>\n
Then there’s Tagus himself, huge and furious, with a glowing enchanted collar round his neck. Tom has to get close enough to unlock it, which means a lasso, a river crossing and a very bumpy ride on the back of a Beast who doesn’t want him there.<\/p>\n
If you’ve got a reader who wants action on every page, this is exactly that. Victor breaks his leg and Tom takes some hard knocks, but it’s exciting rather than gory.<\/p>\n
It’s also very easy to read. Short, punchy sentences, a hero who’s brave and fair, and friends and animals who never let him down.<\/p>\n
Want to see where it all started? Ferno the Fire Dragon is where Tom leaves his village to ask the king for help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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