An excellent retelling of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - written for children! I picked this up at the library on a lark as part of my December Book Club selection. I didn't expect much of it, but as the old saying goes, you can't judge a book by it's cover, and this comely edition proves just...
In the fourth of at least ten books in a series based on Arthurian legends, Wisconsin-based author and Baptist minister Gerald Morris brings more than an impressive display of scholarship. He also brings a very evident love of one of the world's most enduring and powerful stories, a knack for mak...
Summary:Young Dinadan has no wish to joust or quest or save damsels in distress or do any of the knightly things ex-pected of him. But he was born to be a knight, and knights, of course, have adventures. So after his father forces his knighthood upon him, he wanders toward King Arthur’s court in ...
Luneta is tired of living in dull Orkney with her mother and father (who happens to be the most boring knight of King Arthur’s Round Table). She prides herself on always getting what she wants, so when the opportunity presents itself, she jumps at the chance to stay at a family friend’s castle ne...
On her deathbed, Beaufils’s mother leaves him with a quest and a clue: find your father, a knight of King Arthur’s court. So Beaufils leaves the isolated forest of his youth and quickly discovers that he has much to learn about the world beyond his experience. Beaufils’s innocence never fails to ...
Just as delightful as the first two, if not more so! Now I see why my older two kids keep asking to read the next in the series and don't get tired of it. And, I have to say, my estimation of their ability to appreciate humor and good writing has increased because of it. The writing is still w...
It happened at King Arthur's Christmas feast. Now, there may be some who think they've been to Christmas feasts, but the truth is that unless they've been to one of King Arthur's feasts, they really don't know what they're talking about. Never before or since have there been grander yuletide banq...
There, Alis and Fenice were installed at the head table, and the Greeks and Germans were seated at long tables on opposite sides of the room. It seemed rather adversarial to Terence, but he supposed that mingling the two groups would have been useless, since few from either side spoke the other's...
No castle was as splendid as Arthur's Camelot, and no king ever held such magnificent feasts and tournaments. Most of all, no king helped the poor and weak as Arthur did. All the knights of his court vowed to defend the defenseless. Among them were famous knights—like Sir Lancelot the Great, Sir ...
Pelleas the Stupid At nine o'clock the next morning, after a pleasant evening spent with Sir Carados's family, Gawain and Terence arrived at Sir Pelleas's Dalinbrook Castle. The gate was open, and a few servants stood around, listlessly sweeping the path. "Seems he's not home yet," Gawain said. T...
The Mission Terence Terence poked his head into the Camelot kitchens and surveyed the bustling scene until he identified the round, glowing face of Sophy, the king's chief confectioner. "Sophy, lass!" he called. "Did I just see Sir Griflet walking by with a slice of custard flan? I thought we had...
No other knight rescued so many damsels in distress or slew so many dragons or overcame so many recreant knights or, for that matter, kept his armor so tidy. He performed so many great deeds that he soon became known as Sir Lancelot the Great. Minstrels sang songs of his adventures, damsels sighe...