Book:Dragons At Crumbling Castle

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BunsenH: Description of juvenilia

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|illustrator= Mark Beech
|date=11 September 2014
|publisher=Doubleday
|isbn=0857534378
|pages=352
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|series=Children's books‏‎
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This is a collection of Pratchett's stories written for the ''Bucks Free Press'', "as a teenager, mostly as they were first printed, although the grown-up me has tinkered just a ''little'' with a few fine details - the odd tweak here, a pinch there, and a little note at the bottom where needed, and all because the younger me wasn't as clever then as he turned out to be."

==The Blurb:==
Coming September 2014: Dragons at Crumbling Castle!

A beautifully illustrated collection of short stories by master storyteller Sir Terry Pratchett, featuring dragons, dinosaurs, cavemen and car races!

Dragons have invaded Crumbling Castle, and all of King Arthur’s knights are either on holiday or visiting their grannies. It’s a disaster! Luckily, there’s a spare suit of armour and a very small boy called Ralph who’s willing to fill it.

''So funny I dropped my spoon laughing!’' – King Arthur

==Including:==
*Dragons at Crumbling Castle
*The Great Speck
*Hunt the Snorry
*Tales of the Carpet People
*Hecules the Tortoise
*Dok the Caveman
*The Big Race
*Another Tale of the Carpet People
*The Great Egg-Dancing Championship
*Edwo the Boring Knight
*The 59A Bus Goes Back in Time
*The Abominable Snowman
*The Blackbury Monster
*Father Christmas Goes to Work at the Zoo

[[Category:Children's books]]
[[Category:Books by Terry Pratchett]]

Blackbury

2015-09-08T16:32:43Z

BunsenH: Dragons At Crumbling Castle stories

'''Blackbury''' is the fictional town where the [[:category:Johnny Maxwell Series|Johnny Maxwell Series]] books take place. Judging by the BBC TV adaption it is not far from Manchester.

It is also the location of the [[Arnold Bros (est. 1905)]] department store (demolished and replaced by the Arnco Leisure Centre). It is also referred to in later books of the ''[[Bromeliad]]'' (''[[Truckers]]'' trilogy, which gives the town's name as [[Grimethorpe]], but does mention the Neil Armstrong Shopping Mall). Several of the stories in ''[[:book:Dragons_At_Crumbling_Castle|Dragons At Crumbling Castle]]'' take place in Blackbury.

==Notable places==
* Blackbury Hill
* The [[Neil Armstrong Shopping Mall]]
* The old church, now a community centre
* The Cemetery
* [[Paradise Street]]
* The Blackbury Preserves pickle factory
* The [[Joshua N'Clement]] Block
* The site of the former [[Arnold Bros (est. 1905)]] department store, which mysteriously burnt down in a way the police were never quite able to work out;
* The site of the [[Grimethorpe Dye and Paint Company]], also closed down by the [[Arnco Group PLC]] as surplus to requirements;

==Annotation==

Towns "not far from Manchester":- '''''Black'''''burn; '''''Bury'''''.
Please note that in colloquial British English the ''e'' in the word ''berry'' is a ''schwa'', hence "blackberry" (the fruit, ''Rubus fruticosus'', not the computerised whatnot) is pronounced "blackbury" or "blackb'ry" by most British people.

[[Category:Johnny Maxwell]]

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