This is an excellent book for educating students about medieval history. It is high quality and quite well researched. The book is comprised. of several short poems, each narrated by a child living in the village, ranging from the poor to the wealthy. Schlitz, a school librarian, wrote these poems to accompany a class project on medieval times.
The poems allow each student in the class to have a monologue to read. Because it lends itself to this type of activity, this book would be a terrific choice for a powerful readers’ theater lesson. Although different from the typical Newbery book and not my favorite genre, this book certainly has literary merit and the concept is quite unique and creative.
