Heroes & Villains - King Arthur (Heroes & Villains)

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From School Library Journal
Grade 6-9-This title can't decide if it wants to be an academic's or a storyteller's treatment of King Arthur. The introduction and first chapter provide accessible historical and literary background for the legend and could be useful for reports. The remaining chapters offer a pedestrian retelling of the legend itself, interspersed with sidebars that only further blur the line between fact and supposition. Students who are not able to distinguish between the two types of material may be confused or use the information incorrectly. The black-and-white illustrations are merely decorative. Paul C. Doherty's King Arthur (Chelsea, 1987; o.p.) is a more scholarly treatment.
Cheri Estes, Detroit Country Day Middle School, Beverly Hills, MI
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Reviewed with Don Nardo's Adolf Hitler.Gr. 6-9. These biographies from the Heroes and Villains series take on history's best and worst by using lengthy quotations and frequent sidebars of primary-source material. Before telling the story of King Arthur, Nardo addresses the tricky question of whether Arthur ever existed--and, if so, who exactly he was. The story picks up steam when the familiar cast (Guinevere, Mordred, Merlin, etc.) enters, and Nardo does a nice job of mixing the exciting stories with historical background of first-millennium England. In Hitler, Nardo chronicles the Fuhrer's unlikely rise to power. Quotes from Hitler's speeches and contemporary witnesses help readers learn about his lies to the German people, his hatred of Jews (even though he, himself, may well have been a quarter Jewish), and his absolute lack of human compassion. It's an ugly portrait, as subjective in its disgust as King Arthur is in its praise. The engaging writing coupled with the collection of quotations make these good resources. Black-and-white illustrations add little to King Arthur but provide visual context to Hitler's horrors. John Green
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