Awesome knights / illustrations by Steve Stone with additional artwork by Thomas Bayley and Lee Gibson. - 32 pages : colour illustrations ; 27 cm. - Fast facts. . - Fast facts (Kingfisher (Firm)) .

"Adapted from an original text by Philip Steele"--Title page verso. "Come face to face with these fearsome fighters"--Cover. Includes index.

Who were the men of mail and where did they build their homes? What is a cavalry? How were the first castles built? Why did knights joust? Travel back in time to an age of battles and bloodshed, crusades and chivalry, battles and sieges. Fast Facts is a new series of high-interest, lower reading ability books aimed at fact-hungry children who enjoy information books but may be less confident readers or have difficulty with the usual quantity and level of text aimed at their age group.

7+.

9780753439654


Middle Ages--Juvenile literature.
Knights and knighthood--Juvenile literature.
Civilization, Medieval--Juvenile literature.

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