Castles Magnified: With A 3X Magnifying Glass!

Castles Magnified: With A 3X Magnifying Glass!

Grab your magnifying glass and charge into battle with this search-and-find history adventure packed with more than 200 things to spot in each eye-boggling illustration. Meet history?s most heroic knights as you travel back in time to follow Sir Gallahad into the court of King Arthur, Joan of Arc?nto battle, and Richard the Lionheart on his last crusade. Use the magnifying glass to explore?utaway castles, epic medieval battlefields, and impressive royal tournaments, then learn about chivalry, armor, and jousting. Written by the Blue Peter award-winning David Long, this book will delight and inform the most inquisitive young squires and ladies! Continue your up-close, search-and-find history adventures with Pirates Magnified and Egypt Magnified. Review ?Tales of knights, lords and ladies rival those of the gods for spectacle and intrigue. Castles Magnified?ells of storied figures such as Richard the Lionheart and explores the manners and mores of the Middle Ages through teeming illustrations of medieval life. Splendidly rendered by illustrator Harry Bloom, the bustling scenes invite close inspection; with the magnifying glass included in the book, readers can do just that. A cutaway effect in Bloom?s illustrations reveals castle interiors inhabited by servants, guards and nobles. A list of items for youngsters to spy and identify accompanies each scene. With ample historical background contributed by author David Long, Castles Magnified?rings a long-ago era into focus.? - Bookpage Unvarnished infotainment for sharp-eyed Where's Waldo fans - Kirkus Reviews About the Author Harry Bloom is a freelance illustrator based in London. He specialises in creating detailed illustrations for children's books.?irates Magnified is his first book for Wide Eyed Editions. David Long writes for adults and children and specializes in history. As a journalist, he has written for the?imes, Sunday Times, and London?vening Standard?s well as for magazines in Britain and abroad. He is an award-winning ghostwriter and one of his own books was voted Blue Peter Book of the Year 2017.