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Christmas in Camelot (2010)

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4.49 of 5 Votes: 2
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037581373X (ISBN13: 9780375813733)
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English
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random house for young readers

Christmas In Camelot (2010) - Plot & Excerpts

“Christmas In Camelot” begins when Jack and Annie find a book about Merlin. The book is all about the feasts and celebrations in Camelot. Jack and Annie are excited to go to Camelot to see what it is like. When they get there Camelot looks nothing like the book said it would. An evil witch casted a spell over Camelot that took away all the celebration. Jack and Annie go visit the King and Queen of Camelot. They tell Jack and Annie that three of their knights are missing. Jack and Annie soon meet a Christmas Knight who tells them that someone needs to try to get the kingdom’s joy back. Jack and Annie agree to help the Christmas Knight. Once they reach the otherworld they find the three missing knight who are under a dancing spell. Jack and Annie break the spell, and the knights then help them find the kingdom’s joy. They find the joy and then return back to Frog Creek.The main characters are Jack, Annie, and the Christmas Knight. Jack and Annie are in every book. They are siblings that love to go on adventures with each other. The Christmas Knight helps Jack and Annie find the kingdom’s joy. The Christmas knight is really Merlin in disguise.The setting starts off in Frog Creek and then moves to a kingdom in Camelot. The time period starts out in the present, but then moves back in time.The theme of this book is happiness and celebration. Camelot had its happiness taken away until Jack and Annie agree to help them get it back. Camelot now a very happy place with feasts and parties.I recommend this book to younger children. This book is easy to read and understand. This book is about a great adventure that will keep children interested.

I'm not sure I would have given this quite so high a rating, but I asked my fifth-grade reading partner. She said five stars, and that's the opinion that counts.I asked her what she liked about it, and she mentioned the part where the water spilled. I can't go into that without spoiling it, however.Some of the devices in "Christmas in Camelot" struck me as imitative. It's winter, but not Christmas (thank you, C.S. Lewis). We get past the evil forces in an invisibility cloak (thank you, J.K. Rowling). I like the concept that this series takes its readers into historical (or, in this case, legendary) scenarios. I like the way the author develops her protagonists, Annie and Jack. Both my reading partner and I soon understood that Annie was more impulsive and adventurous; Jack more cautious. It made for an easy line of discussion. ("Do you think you're more like Annie or Jack?") I like that the author doesn't shy away from somewhat challenging vocabulary. My reading partner reads so well that if there weren't an occasional harder word, I would have nothing to do. One word that was new to her today was "bewildered." We read the author's note at the end, and I thought it was excellent. My reading partner stumbled over "Celtic myths," and I pronounced "Celtic" for her with a hard "C," of course. I'm only hoping she doesn't hear about the Boston Celtics any time soon.I wouldn't at all mind if our next book also was from the Magic Tree House series.

What do You think about Christmas In Camelot (2010)?

We've been snowed in quite a bit in the last few weeks, so the kids and I have been getting our read on. Our favorite read-aloud books are The Magic Tree House series, and the best of those are the Merlin Missions. This one is the first of the Merlin Missions, and it's GREAT! My kids (my son is 8 and my daughter is 7) were so into it, they kept begging me to keep going whenever I came to the end of a chapter, and they were hanging on my arms and squealing while I read it, they found the adventure soooo exciting :) I love that we've found a series that both my son and my daughter can get so excited about. Keep 'em coming, Mary Pope Osborne :)
—Lisa

You can read this review and others on my blog at http://awriterswife-bcray.blogspot.co...So I read this out of order. I read the Halloween book before the Christmas book. I think I would have been more surprised at the end about who the Christmas Knight was if I hadn’t read them out of order.Nevertheless the story was still fun. Jack and Annie get to go to Camelot at Christmas-time. But Camelot is not what they were expecting. I think this is a fun way to introduce kids to the myth surrounding Camelot, King Arthur, and the Knights of the Round Table. I love when books and movies use myths – even if they completely change them. Are some kids going to think that the way the Disney Huntchback of Notre Dame ends is the way the book ends? Yes. But at least it is getting kids introduced to the story. And if they enjoyed it enough, they’ll pick up the book – or at least research it more. That is why I think I will like these stories.These books are super easy reads. This one felt to read even faster than the Halloween one did. I look forward to reading these with Brooklyn at bedtime when she gets a little older. What I really like is that the author gives details at the end of the book where various aspects of the story were inspired. She gives you more details surrounding the myths.Overall a fun book for kids. If you’re looking for ways to introduce your kids to history and myths, this has seemed like a fun way to do it so far.
—Kristen

The Magic Tree House series and the fact guides that are published along with the series by Osborne are good early chapter books and I have enjoyed the few I have read. However, Christmas in Camelot isn't one of the best for either fans of the series or those looking for King Arthur stories.Since the Athurian characters are dear to my heart I would have loved to see the legend described more, but perhaps Osborne did that in an earlier Tree House. In this book though, the characters were very flat and there is really very little to make this feel like a Christmas read. There wasn't much spark in the brief appearances of Morgan or Merlin either. Merlin was simply introduced and I assume will play more of a role in later Tree House volumes.There were some nice symbols and beautiful imagery in the story, including the dove and the white stag, but no cultural explanations of these. Again these may be explained in one of Osborne's Guides.For a young person, in particular, looking for more in-depth King Arthur, I would recommend The Road to Camlann by Rosemary Sutcliff, King Arthur by Geraldine McCaughrean, and Young Lancelot by Robert D San Souci.
—SarahC

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