Bart the Bard: Bart the Bard, #1

By Paula Luther

Charlie the Wizard, the most powerful magician in the land, recruits Bart the Bard and his talking cat Wilbur to retrieve a magical sword. His enemy, Marvin the Maligned, is also seeking the sword, and he must not be allowed to get it. You would think with stakes this high, the wizard would go after the sword himself. But it wouldn't be as exciting that way, would it? 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Paula Luther
• Release date: Jul 21, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223577232

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Chapter One

BART WAS A BARD AND was known as Bart the Bard. He wasn’t a very good bard, actually. His rhyming was terrible and his singing so out of tune that his audiences always ran screaming in the opposite direction.

Bart loved singing; he just wasn’t very good at it. Many a time he sat in the rain singing at the top of his lungs and strumming along on his guitar, getting soaked to the skin in his green tunic and hat. His only friend in the world was his grey-and-white cat named Wilbur, who was old and slightly deaf and, therefore, wasn’t bothered much by Bart’s caterwauling.

On a dreary evening, Bart was busy writing a song in praise of one of the king’s best knights when a puff of magenta smoke announced the arrival of Charlie the Wizard, the most powerful magician in the land. Bart had sung many songs about him (none had been successful).

Hello, Bart, Charlie greeted.

Hello, Charlie, Bart returned. Do you need a song?

No, but I need something else, the wizard replied. I need you to go on a quest.

I don’t go on quests, Bart