The Story of King Arthur and His Knights is a 1903 children's novel by the American illustrator and writer Howard Pyle.

The book contains a compilation of various stories, adapted by Pyle, regarding the legendary King Arthur of Britain and select Knights of the Round Table.

Pyle's novel begins with Arthur in his youth and continues through numerous tales of bravery, romance, battle, and knighthood.

One day, a 15-year old Arthur finds a sword and succeeds in pulling it out of an enchanted anvil, a task thought to be impossible.

Arthur, now bearing the magic sword, learns of his royal lineage and becomes the King of Britain.

In an attempt to win her love, Arthur visits Cameliard, the castle where Lady Guinevere lives.

With Merlin's help, Arthur disguises himself as a peasant and works as a gardener below Lady Guinevere's tower.

King Ryence threatens Leodegrance and demands that the Duke of North Umber be allowed to marry Guinevere.

Merlin is bewitched by an aspiring young sorceress named Vivien, a friend of Queen Morgana le Fay, who is the sister of King Arthur.

Morgana seeks revenge against Arthur because he did not choose her son Sir Baudemagus to be a member of the Round Table.

Vivien proceeds to have Merlin buried alive but promises to aid King Arthur.

The ship is run by fairies, who offer Arthur and Accalon a feast and rooms for the night.

While the queen, her court, and Sir Pellias are out maying, a damsel named Parcenet approaches them.

During the Court's procession, Lord Ablamor saw the dog chasing his wife's deer and became greatly angered.

A year and a day passes wherein King Arthur seeks in vain to an answer to the riddle, but he sets out to fulfill his promise.

On the way, he meets an old woman who promises to tell him the answer to the riddle on the condition that she may marry a knight of his court.

To keep his promise, King Arthur brings the woman to his court and allows her to choose a knight to marry.

Julie Nelson Couch, in the article "Howard Pyle's The Story of King Arthur and His Knights and the Bourgeois Boy Reader", writes of how Pyle's use of social status and gender perpetuate certain aspects of medieval literature as well as of bourgeois society.

[1] Rather than simply retell the stories authored by Sidney Lanier, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and Sir Thomas Malory, Pyle created new versions of the Arthurian tales, including different adventures, and implementing his own imagination to embellish the plots.

[2] Pyle's writing of the Arthurian stories "[used] text and illustrations to complement one another ... in the presentation of natural description".