title: 100 Things You Should Know About Knights and Castles
author:  Jane Walker 
description: Grade 3-6-This title explores the Middle Ages through 100 numbered facts, realistically detailed color illustrations and cartoons, projects, quizzes, a recipe, and age-appropriate vocabulary. Battles, tournaments, banquets, etc., fill the pages, whetting readers' appetite for more in-depth knowledge. The "I Don't Believe It!" factoids capture the imagination with amusing and entertaining tidbits. Good for recreational reading and for enticing reluctant readers.<br /><i>Pamela K. Bomboy, Chesterfield County Public Schools, VA</i><br />Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: [Cover](01Cover.html)  
  [Front Matter](02FrontMatter-1.html)  
  [Title Page](02FrontMatter-1.html#toc_marker-1-1)  
  [Publisher Information](02FrontMatter-2.html#toc_marker-1-2)  
  [Dedication](02FrontMatter-3.html#toc_marker-1-3)  
  [Castles](03Castles-1.html)  
  [Introduction: What makes a castle a castle?](03Castles-1.html#toc_marker-2-1)  
  [CHAPTER ONE: The coming of castles](03Castles-2.html#toc_marker-2-2)  
  [What did the first castles look like?](03Castles-2.html#toc_marker-2-2-1)  
  [How to make a motte](03Castles-2.html#toc_marker-2-2-2)  
  [A flat-pack castle?](03Castles-2.html#toc_marker-2-2-3)  
  [A chapel story](03Castles-2.html#toc_marker-2-2-4)  
  [The versatile Tower](03Castles-2.html#toc_marker-2-2-5)  
  [Off with their heads!](03Castles-2.html#toc_marker-2-2-6)  
  [Serving a life sentence: the Tower of London
  ravens](03Castles-2.html#toc_marker-2-2-7)  
  [CHAPTER TWO: Kings, lords and knights](03Castles-3.html#toc_marker-2-3)  
  [Fractured knights](03Castles-3.html#toc_marker-2-3-