Richard Platt is the author of Pirate Diary, which won the
Kate Greenaway Medal, as well as Egyptian Diary, Castle Diary, and
Roman Diary. He has written more than sixty nonfiction books for
children, including A World of Information, illustrated by James
Brown. Richard Platt lives in Kent, England.
Chris Riddell is an award-winning illustrator, a writer of
children’s books, and a political cartoonist. He is the illustrator
of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver, retold by Martin Jenkins, as well as
A Great Big Cuddle: Poems for the Very Young and Honey for You,
Honey for Me: A First Book of Nursery Rhymes, both by Michael
Rosen. The winner of three Kate Greenaway Medals and a former
British Children’s Laureate, Chris Riddell lives in England.
Not many, if any, children's books on the Middle Ages and castles
contain the wealth of information found in this fresh, appealing
offering.
—School Library Journal (starred review)
An informative and amusing introduction to the medieval world.
—Publishers Weekly
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