King Arthur
A Marc Brown Arthur Chapter Book #13

Loved it when Arthur became king at the end!......more

This was a good read. It was about Arthur and his class going to a competition where they had various games to pass. They had a pie eating contest. A tug of war, and they even had to build a castle out of various materials. Arthur's class kept losing every game. All these games were to be set in the......more

Read this to my seven-year-old over the course of a couple nights before bed. The episode of this story is obviously more visual, but this is a nice novelization. Arthur books are always worth reading, and we are enjoying the chapter books. This makes a good addition to the family library, as my son......more

What I like about the Arthur books is that they assume a reader who is able to grasp the topics in them, and they don't dumb them down. In this volume, there's a lot of information on the Middle Ages that could easily be made boring, but they're presented in a clever way through a Renaissance Faire.......more

Israel wasn't quite ready for this book. The vocabulary was difficult for him and the storyline a bit confusing and over his head. He said that he still enjoyed it though. It's just one of those books that they take from the storyline of an episode and turn it into a book to read. Kids want to read......more