With Scrip and Staff: A Tale of the Children�������s Crusade is a historical novel written by Elia Wilkinson Peattie and published in 1891. The story takes place in the year 1212 and follows the journey of a group of children who embark on a crusade to liberate the Holy Land from Muslim rule. The novel is based on actual events, as in the year 1212, thousands of children from France and Germany set...