Kay and his foster-brother (known as the Wart) are living in Sir Ector's glorious castle amid the wild and beautiful Forest Sauvage. They are given a tutor - the magician Merlyn. And so begins one of the most inventive and charming retellings of the Arthurian legend, The Sword in the Stone. Through a series of adventures that involve being turned into animals and a meeting with the real Robin Hood, Merlyn instructs his young charges in the ways of the world, and imparts to them a broader wisdom too. One of them will need it - the King has died leaving no heir, and a rightful one must be found by pulling a sword from an anvil resting on a stone...