Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! : Voices from a Medieval Village

English

Series: Wheres Waldo? Ser.

ISBN: 0763615781

EAN: 9780763615789

Category: Juvenile Nonfiction / Drama

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Release Date: 03/05/2008

Age Range: 10-13

Synopsis: Step back to an English village in 1255, where life plays out in dramatic vignettes illuminating twenty-two unforgettable characters. Maidens, monks, and millers sons - in these pages, readers will meet them all. Theres Hugo, the lords nephew, forced to prove his manhood by hunting a wild boar; sharp-tongued Nelly, who supports her family by selling live eels; and the peasants daughter, Mogg, who gets a clever lesson in how to save a cow from a greedy landlord. Theres also mud-slinging Barbary (and her noble victim); Jack, the compassionate half-wit; Alice, the singing shepherdess; and many more. With a deep appreciation for the period and a grand affection for both characters and audience, Laura Amy Schlitz creates twenty-two riveting portraits and linguistic gems equally suited to silent reading or performance. Illustrated with pen-and-ink drawings by Robert Byrd - inspired by the Munich-Nuremberg manuscript, an illuminated poem from thirteenth-century Germany - this witty, historically accurate, and utterly human collection forms an exquisite bridge to the people and places of medieval England.

Awards: American Library Association Notable Books for Children – null  Garden State Teen Book Award – null  Newbery Medal – null  School Library Journal Best Books of the Year – null 

Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! : Voices from a Medieval Village

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Hardcover

Height: 0.53 inches

Width: 7.35 inches

Length: 10.48 inches

Weight: 19.58 oz

Pages: 96