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Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey 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
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Editorial Review:
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.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Guided Reading in Places
When a book appears on the same Newberry Award shelf as: The Island of the Blue Dolphins, Julie of the Wolves, Number the Stars, Dear Mr. Henshaw, Sounder and and other classics, one sits up and takes notice because it means the best in children's literature. This recent addition to the honour roll, made up of narrative poems reminiscent of The Canterbury Tales, gives the young reader a real sense of what daily life was like in the Middle Ages.
A few of the monologues deal with complex ... Read More
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 book
I 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 written ... Read More
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