A wild world of magical creatures and heroic adventure from the extraordinary imagination of Philip Reeve. The squabbling goblins who live in the great towers of Clovenstone spend their time fighting and looting. Only clever young Skarper understands that dark magic created by a vanquished sorcerer is rising again. From th lands of men come fortune-seekers - and trolls, giants, cloud-midens, boglins, swamp monsters, tree-warriors and bloodthirsty goblins are swept into a fabulous magical conflict to thrill all fantasy fans.
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funniest account of a goblin you will ever read --London Evening Standard
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Scattered amongst the towers of Clovenstone Keep, goblins fight, thrash and bash each other from the moment they're born. And when they're not doing that they're stealing, or making raids on the softling humans along the Nibbled Coast to bash and steal from them instead.
But Skarper isn't like other goblins. Oh, he quite enjoys a bit of thieving, but he's cunning and clever about it, and he can read. Unfortunately he's just a bit too clever for his own good, and that's how he ends up plunging headfirst into an adventure. Er... literally.
With cloud maidens, trolls, giants, a would-be-hero, a clever princess, goblins, boglins, dragonets, dragonbone men, a dampdrake and three really bad sorcerers there's rarely a dull moment in Skarper's unplanned adventure.
What starts out as a too-clever comment is soon followed by fights, flights, captors, captives, arguments and escapes. The magic of Clovenstone is waking and Skarper's life swiftly becomes more interesting than he can handle.
With an uncommon hero who isn't the least bit heroic - or has any plans to be - GOBLINS is fast-paced, funny, clever and creative. A great bit of magical mayhem for everyone to enjoy.
But Skarper isn't like other goblins. Oh, he quite enjoys a bit of thieving, but he's cunning and clever about it, and he can read. Unfortunately he's just a bit too clever for his own good, and that's how he ends up plunging headfirst into an adventure. Er... literally.
With cloud maidens, trolls, giants, a would-be-hero, a clever princess, goblins, boglins, dragonets, dragonbone men, a dampdrake and three really bad sorcerers there's rarely a dull moment in Skarper's unplanned adventure.
What starts out as a too-clever comment is soon followed by fights, flights, captors, captives, arguments and escapes. The magic of Clovenstone is waking and Skarper's life swiftly becomes more interesting than he can handle.
With an uncommon hero who isn't the least bit heroic - or has any plans to be - GOBLINS is fast-paced, funny, clever and creative. A great bit of magical mayhem for everyone to enjoy.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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You just know this book is going to be very, very funny as soon as you pick it up because of the great cover and intense greeness - even the page edges are bright green. The quirky goblin cover captures the essense of the book brilliantly. Skarper who ends up having to scarper a lot except when he's being flung out of medieval bratapults/catapults or clouds is an extremely endearing goblin (he's the upside down one on the cover) who hatches from his special egg, learns to read from the bumwipe toilet paper pile of burks/books with the help of a Rosetta stone type map and plays his part in saving the world from the transferable Lych Lord power.
It has a hilarious nod to Lord of the Rings with a detailed fantasy world complete with map, songs - thankfully cut short, twiglets (rather fiesty twig type creatures) mini dragons and goblins who hatch from eggs sometimes veined with precious slowsilver. The main sword is called Mr Chop-U-Up and the goblins do like to kill and bop each other on the head quite a lot. Not to mention the brilliant Giant, trolls and bog creatures who inhabit this world.
There's a lot going on in this book with the intertwining adventure of Henwyn the son of Henmor. He's the idiot Jack and the Beanstalk type heir to a cheese factory. Princess Ned is a great Princess he tries to rescue. Thankfully there's none of that lovey dovey stuff which makes young readers squirm. There's a trio of Sorcerers and a comet thrown into the mix too...
It's a detailed, brilliant story.
Guaranteed entertainment for children and adults who aren't po-faced.
Very highly recommended.
It has a hilarious nod to Lord of the Rings with a detailed fantasy world complete with map, songs - thankfully cut short, twiglets (rather fiesty twig type creatures) mini dragons and goblins who hatch from eggs sometimes veined with precious slowsilver. The main sword is called Mr Chop-U-Up and the goblins do like to kill and bop each other on the head quite a lot. Not to mention the brilliant Giant, trolls and bog creatures who inhabit this world.
There's a lot going on in this book with the intertwining adventure of Henwyn the son of Henmor. He's the idiot Jack and the Beanstalk type heir to a cheese factory. Princess Ned is a great Princess he tries to rescue. Thankfully there's none of that lovey dovey stuff which makes young readers squirm. There's a trio of Sorcerers and a comet thrown into the mix too...
It's a detailed, brilliant story.
Guaranteed entertainment for children and adults who aren't po-faced.
Very highly recommended.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By Rhona
Format:Kindle Edition
I am a ten year old boy reading Philip Reeve for the first time. I thought it was brilliant! It is good for children who like funny play fighting and gives loads of ideas for their own stories and adventures.
Skarper was very funny and clever and all the other characters joined him on an amazing quest to the keep. A great book to read for children who are just gaining confidence with independent reading. Hope there will be a follow up story.
Skarper was very funny and clever and all the other characters joined him on an amazing quest to the keep. A great book to read for children who are just gaining confidence with independent reading. Hope there will be a follow up story.
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A children's book that appeals to adults too
'Goblins' is funny and gripping. I bought it because I thought my eleven-year-old grandson might enjoy it and read it to find out whether I thought he would. Read more
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A wonderful story, Up there with The Hobbit. I found it impossible to put down and was wishing it would go on for ever.
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GoblinsWe are reading this with our seven year old ,who is loving the pythonesque humour ,as are my wife and I .lots of dark woods , crumbly castles and flaky characters . Read more
Published 5 months ago by patrick
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Surprisingly Poor (and very sad it is to say so)
As a big, big, big fan of Philip Reeve's YA material (Mortal Engines, Fever Crumb etc), I suppose it was inevitable that I would go on to read his other works, no matter the genre... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Mr. J. M. Haines
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Brilliant Fantasy Story
I'm always weary of children's books. But this came as a real surprise.
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Fantasy for kids too young to "get" JRT
My seven year old daughter took an age to get through this book, we split the reading into partly me reading it to her as a bedtime story and partly her reading it on her own. Read more
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