There is a big difference between giving this book 1 star and giving that other Robin Hood book I read recently –The Youngest Templar – 1 star. My point is all books I give a single star to are not the same.
The other girl has had all A’s that semester and rushes out of the classroom to go cry in the bathroom after reading the teacher’s cutting remark about her “resting on her laurels” underneath the big glaring red C. The girl who has had F’s and D’s all semester and poured a lot of work into this essay is all smiles and happy and the teacher even writes a compliment on her essay about her improvement.
So you know how a teacher – especially English teachers – can use the same grade as both a punishment and a reward? Example- you’ve got two students in an 11th grade English class, both having just written essays on the fatal flaws of Shakespeare’s tragic heroes, and both get C’s. because there were NO POTATOES OUTSIDE OF SOUTH AMERICA UNTIL THE 16TH CENTURY!!!! Robin Hood characters and potatoes never, ever met! There were no French fries, no crisps, no chips, no mashed potatoes, no sweet potatoes, no baked potatoes, and if you needed somewhere to hide when there was an attack on the castle going on, there would certainly not have been a bag of them in your root cellar for your mother to try and stuff you in. There were NO POTATOES in 12th century England! Got that? THERE WERE NO POTATOES IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE! None. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.First, there is something I have to get off my chest that really bugged me: She has also received the Washington Post's Children's Book Guild Award for her contribution to children's nonfiction. She has received many awards for her titles including Sugaring Time which was a Newberry Honor Book The Night Journey which won the National Jewish Book Award for Children Pageant which was an ALA Notable Children's book and Beyond the Burning Time which was an ALA Best Book for Young Adults. Many of her books are illustrated with photographs by her husband, Christopher Knight. She has written more than seventy books for children and young adults on everything from historical fiction to picture books and nonfiction books including the Dear America books and the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series.
Her first book, I Have Four Names for My Grandfather, was published while she was teaching. She majored in English in college and after graduation wrote for various magazines and taught.
Kathryn Lasky was born in Indianapolis, Indiana on June 24, 1944, and knew she wanted to be a writer from the time she was ten.
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