Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!
Just sent this book, Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!, to Weirleader because its exactly the kind of essentially wholesome but irreverent stuff inquiring kids love. (Weirleader–I hope both boys dig it but its more suited to your eldest at the moment)
Hopefully it can figure into your 24 books for 2008.
A brief synopsis courtesy of Publisher’s Weekly (via Amazon):
Schlitz (The Hero Schliemann ) wrote these 22 brief monologues to be performed by students at the school where she is a librarian; here, bolstered by lively asides and unobtrusive notes, and illuminated by Byrd’s (Leonardo, Beautiful Dreamer) stunningly atmospheric watercolors, they bring to life a prototypical English village in 1255. Adopting both prose and verse, the speakers, all young, range from the half-wit to the lord’s daughter, who explains her privileged status as the will of God.
Some representative quotes from the review in The New York Times of December 17, 2008 after the jump: Read the rest of this entry »
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(photo by staff photographer at the Daily Breeze, Robert Casillas. )
