I probably would've enjoyed this more as a kid; the humor is very cartoonish (including more than one "No I'm not" / "Yes you are" exchange that goes on for a while), the plot straightforward, the prose conversational. There are jokes about anachronisms and explanations of archaic phrases and customs.

Most of the book seems to be Wart getting Merlyn to turn him into different animals, and Merlyn complying for the purposes of "eddication" — the titular sword doesn't appear until the end. But I've heard that White always intended the books to flow into each other, so I feel like the pacing does work.

(Read as part of [b:The Once and Future King|43545|The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King, #1-4)|T.H. White|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1338741283l/43545._SY75_.jpg|1140206] collected edition, but shelved individually for review and reading challenge purposes.)