Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! : Voices from a Medieval Village (Hardcover)

from debnance

This year's Newbery winner. Loved it. The book was written in the form of short monologues, with characters representing many of the traditional people of medieval times. The author uses the sidebars to explain here and there words and expressions that children might not know. She also interjects...

from MaowangVater

A series of monologues and two dialogs introduce the lives of twenty-three children near an English manor in 1255. There are interspersed with short one-page essays on crop rotation, pilgrimage, the Crusades, Jews in medieval society and the legal status of runaways. The plays were written by a s...

from sagrundman

Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! is a compilation of stories about children in the middle ages. Each child has some type of profession (or the child of) and they tell a story or a story is told about their lives. The story is either written in poem or short story form and are all fairly easy to read. ...

from goodnightmoon

Enjoyable and informative, if not lingering. I gained much information about the Middle Ages, and I appreciated the slight through-lines that made characters show up in others' monologues. The detail has been painstakingly researched, lending the book an air of authoritativeness. But I foresee th...

from tjsjohanna

One thing I've enjoyed about reading Newberry Medal winners is the variety of the selections. This book of monologues, written to be performed by children, is an engaging look at life in the Middle Ages. Taken together they give the reader a glimpse of life in a world completely different from mo...