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Series Consultant: Viv LambertIllustrations: Alejandro Hernández Azorín

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Find these words in the story.

Chinese Takeaway

sword

stone

ghost

king knights

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castle

worms

magician

fishing net

dungeonarmour

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Goodness me!Where are we now?

Here is Professor Wong’s Chinese Takeaway. It’s amagical restaurant. It can travel to different countriesand to different times. Look! Professor Wong and hisfriends Brenda, Eddie and Marmaduke the dog arelooking out of the window.

Let ’s go out and explore.

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Suddenly Eddie saw a stone. In the stone was a giantsword! Brenda saw a ghost. Everyone was frightened.

AAH! It ’s a sword. Run!

AAH! It ’s aghost! Run!

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My name’s Brenda.And this is Marmaduke.

Can you see somelittle monsters in the

picture? They areGrippies. How many

Grippies can you see?Are they good or bad?

It wasn’t a ghost. It was a girl. Her name was Guinevere.

Guinevere pointed tothe sword in thestone. It was a veryimportant sword.

The man who pullsthe sword out of thestone is going to bethe King of England.

My name’s Eddie.

Wait! I ’m not a ghost.My name’s Guinevere.What are your names?

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Guinevere told a sad story about her friend, Arthur. Arthurwas short and thin, but he was very strong. His brother,Kay, was big and tall and strong. But Arthur was stronger.Kay was very jealous of Arthur. He hated Arthur.

One day, Kay putArthur in the dungeonand shut the door.

Take that! And that! And that!

Huh! Very clever!Very clever!

Ha! Ha! Now I’mthe strongest!

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Professor Wong pointed to a picture in his Magic HistoryBook. In the picture was a king. He was short and thin, buthe was very strong. He had long, straight hair and blue eyes.His name was King Arthur.

It ’s my friend Arthur!Please help me to rescuehim from the dungeon.

Guinevere looked at the picture.She was very surprised.

We’re in England. It ’sthe time of King Arthur.

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Come on! Jump in!

Guinevere, Professor Wong, Eddie, Brenda and Marmadukewent to Kay’s castle. It was a big black castle with a bigblack dungeon.

There’s the castle.

I don’t like this at all ...

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Can you find the Grippy with the red eyes? He appears on five pages.Can you find the pages?

Oh, no! The Grippiesare in the castle!

Professor Wong and his friends swamto the castle.The water was very cold.Professor Wong found a secret doorinto the castle.What luck!

Professor Wong opened the door and saw ... the Grippies! The Grippies are very bad.They help the Crazton Family, and the Crazton Family are verybad.They hate Professor Wong.

What ’s this? Oh, good!It ’s a secret door!

Brrrrr! It ’s very cold!

Oh, no! Look, Brenda!

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Worms! Oh, dear. No.

Oh, dear! The Craztonsare with Kay.

They saw Kay, they saw the bad knights ...and they saw the Crazton Family eatingwith Kay and the bad knights. Can you seeQueen Crazton, King Crazton and Prince Crazton? They are all very bad!Queen Crazton is very greedy. She likesmeat. Her favourite food is worms!

Have you got any worms?

Look! Here’s theCrazton Family.

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Marmaduke saw the Crazton family.

Queen Crazton saw Professor Wong.She was very angry. She called theGrippies. Professor Wong and hisfriends began to run fast.

WOOF! WOOF!WOOF! WOOF!

Oh, no! Let ’s go!

Where are we going?

I don’t know,but let ’s gothere quickly!

Follow them!

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Can you see Professor Wong,Eddie, Brenda, Guinevereand Marmaduke?

Where are they?

They came to a room full of armour.They quicklyclimbed into the armour.The Grippies and QueenCrazton came running in, but they couldn’t findProfessor Wong and his friends.

Quick! Let ’s hidein this armour!

Ssssh!

It ’s veryhot inhere!

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Professor Wong found some stairs. At the bottom of the stairs was abig door. Behind the big door was the dungeon. And in the dungeonwas Arthur! Professor Wong gave Brenda, Eddie and GuinevereGrippy Zappers and fishing nets.

Let ’s say ‘Hello’ tosome guards andGrippy friends first!

Look!Let ’s openthe door!

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Professor Wong and his friends fought the guards andthe Grippies.

Take that! I ’m notafraid of Grippies!

Look at my fish!

Round and roundand round you go!

Look what I ’ve got! The keyto the dungeon door!

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Arthur was very happy to see Guinevere! He wanted tomeet Guinevere’s friends.

Professor Wong took outhis magic rollerblades.

Hello! Thank you very much!

And I’m Brenda, andthis is Professor Wong.

Hello! My name’s Eddie,and this is Marmaduke.

Ha! Ha! Mymagicrollerblades!

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The order of people in thispicture is different. Can yousee who changed places?

Professor Wong put on his magic rollerblades. He heldEddie’s hand. Eddie held Brenda’s hand. Brenda heldArthur’s hand, and Arthur held Guinevere’s hand.Marmaduke sat on Professor Wong’s rollerblade.

When everyone was ready, Professor Wong turned on his magic rollerblades!

Goodbye, guards!Goodbye, Grippies!

Out of thecastle, ofcourse … !

Whooa! Where are we going?

Everyone hold hands!Are you ready?

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Professor Wong, Arthur and Guinevere were very tired andthey went to sleep. Brenda and Eddie read about Arthur inProfessor Wong’s Magic History Book.This is what they read.

Wow!

Merlin was a good and clever

magician. He helped King Arthur

to be a good king.

King Arthur had a wonderful sword. The name of the sword was Excalibur.

The Knights of the Round Table satat a round table with King Arthur.

King Arthur married a beautiful woman.

Her name was Guinevere.

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They were good knights.

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One man is wearingorange and purpleclothes. Who is he?

The next day there was a big party with food and drinkand music. Kay tried to pull the sword out of the stone.

He pulled and pulled, buthe couldn’t pull the swordout of the stone.

Oh, dear!

Pull, Kay!Kay forKing!

I ’m going tobe the Kingof England!

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Prince Crazton tried to pull the sword out of the stone.Queen Crazton and King Crazton watched him.The Grippies helped.

He pulled and pulled and theGrippies pulled and pulled!But they couldn’t pull thesword out of the stone.

Oh, dear!

You idiot! Youstupid idiot!

I ’m going to be awonderful king!

Help him, Grippies! Pull!

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Suddenly Arthur jumped onto the stone.The people watchedArthur. Kay and the bad knights watched Arthur.The CraztonFamily watched Arthur. Professor Wong and his friendswatched Arthur. Everyone waited. Could Arthur pull the sword out of the stone?

Arthur pulled the sword out of the stone.

Look, it ’sArthur!

WOW !!!

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Can you find thereal Merlin? Whatcolour is his coat?

Kay and the bad knights went back to the castle.TheCrazton Family went back home to Planet Crazton.Thepeople were very happy.They had a new king, and he wasstrong and good.

One knight thought Professor Wongwas Merlin the magician.

Hurrah! Hurrahfor King Arthur!

Hurrah! Hurrah!Hurrah! Hurrah!

I ’m not Merlin. My name is, er ... Professor Wong.

Hurrah for Merlin!

Be a good king and queen!

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Goodbye, and thank you!

Goodbye, and good luck!

It was time for Professor Wong and his friends to saygoodbye.They went into the Chinese Takeaway.