Reading Lists - Knights, Armor, and the Middle Ages
The following books are recommended for children in grades 4-8. This list was compiled by using the on-line catalog of the Louisville Free Public Library. All books may not be available in every branch and there may only be single copies available. For more information or to verify the information listed below, you may want to check the Louisville Free Public Library's listings directly.
- Amery, Heather. The Tournament. Tulsa, Ok.: EDC Publications, 1996.
- Carlson, Laurie M. Days of Knights and Damsels. Chicago, Ill.: Chicago Review Press: Distributed by Independent Publishers Group, c1998.
- Corrick, James A. Life of a Medieval Knight. San Diego, Calif.: Lucent Books, c2001.
- Davis, Kenneth C. Don’t Know Much About the Kings and Queens of England. Harper Collins publishers. 2002.
How would you like to be King or Queen of England? Here is your chance to see if the royal life is really what you imagined. In this book children will learn which King brought leopards and a camel to the Tower of London and who was the first Royal bookworm. - Gravett, Christopher. The World of the Medieval Knight. New York: Peter Bedrick Books, 1996.
- Kerr, Daisy. Knights & Armor. Danbury, Conn.: Franklin Watts, 1997.
- Nicolle, David. Medieval Knights. New York, NY: Viking, 1997.
- Oakeshott, R. Ewart. A Knight and his Castle. Chester Springs, Pa.: Dufour Editions, 1997.
- Oakeshott, R. Ewart. A Knight and his Horse. Chester Springs, Pa.: Dufour Editions, 1998.
- Oakeshott, R. Ewart. A Knight and his Weapons. Chester Springs, Pa.: Dufour Editions, 1997.
- Osborne, Will. Knights and Castles: a nonfiction companion to The knight at dawn / by Will Osborne and Mary Pope Osborne; illustrated by Sal Murdocca. New York: Random House, c2000.
- Shuter, Jane. The Middle Ages. Des Plaines, Ill.: Heinemann Library, c2000.
- Walker, Jane. 100 Things you Should Know About Knights & Castles. Broomall , PA.: Mason Crest, c2003.
- Weatherly, Myra . William Marshal, Medieval England's Greatest Knight. Greensboro , N.C.: M. Reynolds, c2001.
- Zohorsky, Janet R. Medieval Knights and Warriors. San Diego, Calif.: Lucent Books, c2003.
