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Title | The Knight of the Golden Plain
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Author | Mollie Hunter
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Cover Art | Marc Simont
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Publisher | Harper & Row - 1983
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First Printing | Harper & Row - 1983
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Title | The Three-Day Enchantment
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Author | Mollie Hunter
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Cover Art | Marc Simont
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Publisher | Harper & Row - 1985
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First Printing | Harper & Row - 1985
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Title | Day of the Unicorn
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Author | Mollie Hunter
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Cover Art | Donna Diamond
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Publisher | HarperCollins - 1994
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First Printing | HarperCollins - 1994
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Category | Children
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Warnings | None
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Main Characters | Sir Dauntless, Dorabella, Benson
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Main Elements | Wizards, Unicorns
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 The Knight of the Golden Plain
In a young boy's daydream, he becomes a strong and fearless knight and rides off to do good deeds and find great adventure.
The Three-Day Enchantment
A young boy's daydream magically transforms him into Sir Dauntless, a strong and fearless knight who sets off to outwit the Three-Day Enchantress.
Day of the Unicorn
A young boy's daydream transforms him into the fearless Sir Dauntless and he sets out to capture a unicorn that has magically escaped from a tapestry at Crag Castle.
These are fun, quick stories about a boy, usually on a Saturday before tea time, who imagines he turns into Sir Dauntless, a knight without fear who rides the great black stallion Midnight, and whose lady fair lives in Crag Castle. He goes off on many adventures, banishing witches, killing dragons, defeating wizards, destroying giants, rescuing ladies in distress and capturing unicorns. I like how the tale is told as if he really were a knight, but there are some undertones that reminds one that it's simply the boy's imagination. I had epub versions of two of them so most of the images were gone and were without colour but I had a PDF version of the second book and the artwork was perfect for the story. Of course I had discovered the series while looking for unicorn books to read this year, but the other two books were wonderful too. Now Hunter has supposedly written books on Scottish folklore, having some family ancestry from that country, I will likely hunt those down, since who wouldn't want to read about kelpies, and selkies and all the other beasties that go bump on the moors...
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