Skarper isn’t
like the other goblins. Well, he does have the same love of treasure and the tendency
to steal to accumulate more treasure. But unlike others of his kind, he has intelligence
and a thirst for knowledge. In Philip Reeve’s Goblins, it is this brain that gets him into trouble – very
amusing, imaginative trouble.
Along with
Skarper, the book focuses on Henwyn, a young man who dreams of something bigger
than cheese (he is apprenticed as a cheesewright in his father’s cheesery).
When Skarper is kicked out of the goblin tower - or more accurately, catapulted
out- for questioning the goblin king, and Henwyn is driven out of his town
after an unfortunate incident with a magical cheese monster, the two misfits
find each other. And soon, adventure finds them. There is old magic awakening
in the land of Clovenstone, and it could spell danger if that power falls into the
wrong hands.
