Books for kids...

* Sir Dancealot Timothy Knapman and Keith Robinson (Bloomsbury, €8.20)

In days of old , great tales were told of fabulous fearless knights, whose methods were now completely out of date and overshadowed by Sir Dancealot who cleverly danced the monsters into submission. But one day he meets his match. A huge dragon appears who leads him a merry dance, that is, until the dragon decides that their contest should be on ice.

It is not until the dragon slips into a huge hole created by their ice skates that Sir Dancealot gets the upper hand. Being a nice knight he takes pity on the dragon and when he helps him out of the hole they become friends. Lovely characters and simple rhymes make this an attractive story for age five and upwards.