Dazzling armor! Daring sword fights! Colin longs to live like a medieval knight. His brother challenges him to try it for a week— with hilarious consequences! Keywords: knights, Middle Ages, little brothers, chores
The Angry Little Knight, otherwise known as Hothead, is tired of “practice” fighting. He wants a real adventure. But when he rides his trusty steed into the dark forest, he finds more than he bargained for: a little dragon that is just as bad-tempered as he is. Will the dragon eat the knight? Will the knight slay the dragon? Both little hotheads are in for a surprise, and the dark forest will never be the same again.
William has just received the best present of his life - an old, real-looking stone and wooden model of a castle, with a drawbridge, a moat, and a finger-high knight to guard the gates. It's the mysterious castle his housekeeper has told him about, and even though William is sad she's leaving, now the castle is his! William can't wait to play with the castle - he's certain there's something magical about it. And sure enough, when he picks up the tiny silver knight, it comes alive in his hand!
J.R.R. Tolkien is best known as a fantasy writer. But his lesser-known profession was that of an professor and linguist, working at Oxford for over three decade. This translated poem is an excellent example of his non-Middle-Earth work.
"Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" is a relatively little-known Arthurian legend, in which the knight Sir Gawain must forfeit his life to a knight who allowed Gawain to behead him -- then picked up his head and rode out.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11524.33 | Fiction literature | 20 December 2011
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Mrs. Jeffries and the Silent Knight
When a peer is found lying face down in a frozen fountain, only the help of housekeeper Mrs. Jeffries and her crime-solving staff will give poor Inspector Witherspoon any chance of sleeping in heavenly peace on Christmas Eve.
