Knights

by Catherine Daly-Weir

Book Overview

A young knight-in-training has so much to do-learn about arms and armor, assist a squire, attend a medieval banquet, tilt at the quintain-and prepare to be "dubbed!" This is a surefire, nonfiction... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0448418576
• ISBN13: 9780448418575
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 6 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Grades 1 to 3

Customer Reviews

The Best Book On Becoming a Knight On the Market

Bargain priced at a mere $[...] U.S. dollars (read- worth trillions in third world currency), this is the best book I've yet read on knights and knighthood, as the illustrated pictures give you an idea of what it was like going to the quest to become a knight withoutb the library style ones from the 80a to today with expensive full plate armor getting in the way that knights are somehow macho. You start out as a young page and when you're a teenager you become a squire until you're at least 26 years old you can enter early knighthood and be part of the royal family. That knights were somehow macho is a bit mishappen- this has full details of a young page who becomes a cocky squire to the sexist cheesey full plate armor required of tournament knights to joust and duel. They were just as let's say homo (and homoerotic) as the Greek and Roman phalanx soldiers. That's where the gay bashing comes in for the most part- can't you just do your job and not worry about sex? Why not just find a woman, sir, and raise him to be a squire. I use the word him because women are seldom allowed to be knights. On rare instances when knights have children, if it was a girl they would usually kill it and if it was a boy it would be a squire who become a knight himself eventually. Women knights are called mademoissles on the rare instances they are allowed to be confirmed a true knight. Women can become holy knights instead without caution. This condensed book has the works for your personal knight- a coat of arms, weapons, armor, castle. With this book you have a blunt weapon. I have King Arthur's historic Excalibur dagger,l and it is now a blunt weapon. So is my scourge. If you want to save some money, this children's style book is an excellent choice to declaring your knighthood, no questions asked. DON'T GET THE FIFTY DOLLAR ONE ON KNIGHTHOOD THEY OFFER YOU- KEEP YOUR FIRST KNIGHT BOOK UNDER FIVE! And I bless you, and it's totally grown up. The cheesey armor, there's a big childlike hanging over it- it's not bullet proof, it's not tank proof, it's not everything proof and it doesn't help either, neither do weapons. The knight is an obsolete mode of thinking, it's just a career option I had inherited from European ancestors in the Middle Ages. And I bless you and hope your knight is not a cop!

recommend it

Great book that explains with simple but accurate words the life of a little boy destined to become a knight. The children will identify easily with the main character and have a pretty complete picture of life during the Middle Ages. Good ilustrations that go well with the texts. Great for children 3 to 8.