The Labyrinth of Doom

by Stuart Gibbs Narrated by Gibson Frazier, Lamarr Gulley, Aden Hakimi, Lameece Issaq

Overview

Now with a reimagined look! Knight-in-training Tim and his best friend, Belinda, embark on a quest to save Princess Grace in the laugh-out-loud funny, highly illustrated second book of the New York Times bestselling Once Upon a Tim chapter book series from Spy School author Stuart Gibbs.

Prince Ruprecht is VERY UPSET that knights-in-training, Tim and Belinda, have thwarted his plans and ruined his chances with Princess Grace. And so, to get even, he has kidnapped the princess and trapped her in the most complicated, dangerous, complex, dastardly, biggest (okay you get the point)...and scariest maze in all the world!

Now it's up to Tim, Belinda, Ferkle, and Rover to fend off menacing beasts (like the minotaur), conquer treacherous obstacles (like chasms filled with cave sharks), find their way through the labyrinth (which is very tricky), and rescue the princess before time runs out. Oh, and also they need to remember how to get back out again...or they'll be trapped inside the maze forever.

Editorial Reviews

The New York Times Book Review on Once Upon a Tim

Fans of heraldic silliness like The Princess Bride and Shrek will delight in Once Upon a Tim, a charming take on the traditional knightly adventure.”

Kirkus Reviews

2022-07-13
Princess Grace of Merryland needs rescuing again, forcing two young knights-in-training to face a series of challenges, from hungry cave sharks to a minotaur named Chad.

Actually, Princess Grace is perfectly capable of rescuing herself—again: see Once Upon a Tim (2022)—except that this time, kidnappers have stashed her in a room that’s locked and bolted on the outside…and in the middle of a maze billed, supposedly, as “the most complex and dastardly labyrinth in the world.” So it is that former peasants Tim and his more capable friend Bull—otherwise known as Belinda when she’s not disguised as a boy—plunge into a mess of dark and bewildering tunnels, armed with a ball of twine provided by the surprisingly sapient village idiot Ferkle, to face a series of deadly threats…though the most legendary of all turns out to be an amiable monster with the body of a bull and the head of, well, a dude. Throughout Gibbs’ lighthearted, laugh-out-loud tale, Curtis supplies proper notes of farce or stark terror as appropriate in flurries of line drawings that present most of the humans and the monsters with human features as White, though Belinda appears to present as Black. Along the way, Tim adds educational value to his narrative by flagging and then pausing to define vocabulary-building words like laborious and vexing.

A lighter-than-air blend of knightly exploits and rib-tickling twists. (Fantasy. 10-12)

Product Details

BN ID:	2940175790642
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster
Publication date:	11/01/2022
Series:	Once Upon a Tim
Edition description:	Unabridged
Age Range:	5 - 8 Years

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