If your child is interested in history, you might want to consider exploring medieval times together! There are several books in the catalog about knights that might capture any curious kid's imagination and provide hours of infotainment, such as making your own coat of arms! Consider:
Non-Fiction
What if You Met a Knight by Jan Adkins, scribe and illuminator
Knights: Warriors of the Middle Ages by Aileen Weintraub
Knights & Castles: Exploring History Through Art by Alex Martin
Knight by Christopher Gravett
You Wouldn't Want to Be a Medieval Knight! : Armor You'd Rather Not Wear by Fiona Macdonald
The Short and Bloody History of Knights by John Farman
How to Draw Knights, Kings, Queens & Dragons by Christopher Hart
Knights & Castles: 50 Hands-On Activities to Experience the Middle Ages by Avery Hart & Paul Mantell
Knights: Facts, Things to Make, Activities by Rachel Wright
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales retold by Marcia Williams
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight retold by Michael Morpurgo
Picture Books
A Good Knight's Rest by Shelley Moore Thomas
The Totally Awesome Epic Quest of the Brave Boy Knight by Pranas T. Naujokaitis
Night Knight by Owen Davey
Boogie Knights by Lisa Wheeler
The Bravest Knight by Mercer Mayer
J Fiction
Igraine the Brave by Cornelia Funke
The Seven Swords by Nils Johnson-Shelton
The Adventures of Sir Balin the Ill-Fated by Gerald Morris
Darksolstice by Sam Llewellyn
Digory and the Lost King by Angela McAllister
In the Hand of the Goddess by Tamora Pierce
Young Adult Fiction
The Legend of Lady Ilena by Patricia Malone
The Book of Mordred by Vivian Vande Velde
Sword of the Rightful King: A Novel of King Arthur by Jane Yolen
Rift by Andrea Cremer
The Devil's Kiss by Sarwat Chadda
Rogue's Home by Hilari Bell
Damosel: In Which the Lady of the Lake Renders a Frank and Often Startling Account of Her Wondrous Life and Times by Stephanie Spinner
Pagan's Crusade by Catherine Jinks
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