The View From Kalamazoo

Boudicca news or rather, the torc she might have owned. Metal detecting is so much more interesting in the UK…

For all those who do occasional gigs in their kids’ classrooms – this looks to be a fun one (be prepared to help small knights make helmet-masks!): The Princess Knight. I’ll have to pick it up!

Just bought Forri the Baker by Edward Myers. Really wonderful – great illustrations (which I do look for. wanted to be a children’s book illustrator once upon a time and still might try it, someday…but I’d write the books, too. medieval-themed, of course).

Books I Want to buy: Sir Cedric by Roy Gerrard, A Medieval Feast by Aliki, The Green Man by Gail E. Haley, and Bestiary : An Illuminated Alphabet of Medieval Beasts
by Jonathan Hunt . I have Illuminations by Hunt and it’s really well done. Knights & Castles: 50 Hands-On Activities to Experience the Middle Ages by Avery Hart looks really good, too.

Of course everyone knows my sinister plot – get kids interested in medieval history before someone tells them it’s boring, get kids intereated in Latin (Harry Potter!) before someone tells them it’s hard and obscure…*muahahahaha* Maybe in 4th grade or something if the teacher wants to cover Harry Potter I can offer to come in and teach them how to write their own spells….*MUAHAHAHAHAHA*

[crossposted to my lj]