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Meet Gawain. He's a goose, with great plans to be a great architect, who's fallen instead into being the Chief Guard of the Royal Treasury belonging to King Basil the bear. Only the two of them have keys to enter through the only door into the place, but lo and behold, some of the gems have been stolen. Gawain promises to be even more diligent than he already is – ''I check, I double-check and I re-double-check"'', he insists. But more and more things go missing, and soon Gawain is being accused of betraying King Basil's trust and helping himself. I would say he's out on his ear as a result, but, you know – he's a goose.
This is an interesting book, mostly for the immediacy with which it conveys the situation. There's no real explanation of how Gawain gets such a change in his intended career, and there's absolutely no background to the land we're in, with all its diverse animal subjects. Instead we're thrust into Gawain's dilemma – and apart from the puzzle of the case to solve, we're only really forced to like him and want to side with him because he's a goose. A loyal, steadfast and intelligent goose, but a goose.
