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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 812.6 EAN: 9780763615789 ISBN: 0763615781 Label: Candlewick Press Manufacturer: Candlewick Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 96 Publication Date: July 24, 2007 Publisher: Candlewick Press Reading Level: Ages 9-12 Release Date: July 24, 2007 Studio: Candlewick Press Editorial Review: Product Description: 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. There’s Hugo, the lord’s nephew, forced to prove his manhood by hunting a wild boar; sharp-tongued Nelly, who supports her family by selling live eels; and the peasant’s daughter, Mogg, who gets a clever lesson in how to save a cow from a greedy landlord. There’s 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. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Truly excellent!Winner of the 2008 Newberry Medal, Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! was actually written to be performed. Laura Amy Schlitz has written here a series of interconnected monologues and dialogues which, taken together, depict the life of kids of all kinds in a medieval village. There's the Falconer's Son, the Blacksmith's Daughter, the runaway villein, the Young Lord, The Pilgrim and The Sniggler, all of whom help complete the picture. Rating: - Brilliant!The reviewers have covered it all, but such a truly great book deserves ongoing praise. How nice to see that this jewel of a book won the Newbery! Standing ovation from this reader. Rating: - Charming!A wonderful book from a wonderful person. This is especially good for lower- and middle-schoolers. Quite usable for in-school performances. Rating:  - For some reason I thought it'd be a novel, not a children's bookI didn't really realize it would be a children's book when I placed the item on hold at my library. I just knew that I wanted to read the latest Newberry award winning book. I guess I figured that if it fell into the same category as "A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine L'Engle then it must be good. I was a little surpised at how thin it was. I was also surprised at how it is not just one coherent story (or even a story in the general prose form). They are monologue and dialogue plays ... Read More Rating: - A gem for the appropriate classroom.The fact that the book is made up of monologues by villagers, like "Spoon River Anthology's" poetry, makes it a natural for dramatic presentations in experiencing life in a medieval village in a social studies class -- middle school, or high school. When students "live" a character first hand, in costume, they experience a different life, and they remember much more of the information. MTL |
