Sir Nobonk and the Terrible Dreadful Awful Naughty Nasty Dragon | |
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Author(s) | Spike Milligan |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Genre(s) | Children's literature |
Publication date | 1982 |
Media type | Print (Hardcover & Paperback) |
Pages | c.30 pp (May change depending on the publisher and the size of the text) |
Sir Nobonk and the Terrible Dreadful Awful Naughty Nasty Dragon (also known by the shorter title of Sir Nobonk and the... Dragon) is a 1982 comedy novel written by Spike Milligan, and the fourth picture book by Milligan after The Bald Twit Lion, Badjelly the Witch and Dip the Puppy.
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The story of Sir Nobonk is a generic parody of Medieval-type stories about knights and dragons (similar to Don Quixote or the much-later Shrek), set within a Medieval world with modern anachronisms for comic purposes (such as garden hoses for knights to wash out their armour).[1]
The story takes place in the mythical Kingdom of Rotten Custard, a kingdom that exists within Cornwall, where knights are constantly at war with the Dragons. Among the knights is a 60-year-old knight named Sir Nobonk, who becomes a dragon-catcher in order to save the dragons from extinction.
Setting forth into the nearby forest, Sir Nobonk successfully captures the last living dragon, and convinces the king to open a zoo to help dragons to repopulate. The plan becomes successful, and also helps humans and dragons to co-exist peacefully within the kingdom.[2]
However, the prosperity of the kingdom invokes a giant named Blackmangle to attack the kingdom along with his servant Witch-Way, leaving it to Sir Nobonk to face the new foes and to save the kingdom.[3]