by Laura Amy Schlitz, Robert Byrd
A great production of an audiobook. Different voices for each character, really fun music in between each monologue and a cool vibe when the monologue contained more than one character. The book itself didn't do much for me, but I'd easily give the audio a five star rating. Different characters f...
See:http://pernodel.wordpress.com/2008/07/12/good-masters-sweet-ladies-voices-from-a-medieval-village/
hated it
Good lord! Sweet jesus!The seventeen short skits of varying quality herein were created for school children...well specifically for one of those private schools with "The" before its name. You know, the ritzy titzy kind were it's a-okay if little Johnny skips his other classes for the rest of the da...
For its intended purpose this is a truly remarkable book. The story goes that Schlitz (a school librarian) wrote this book as a means to help the students at her school study the Middle Ages. Each chapter contains a monologue or dialogue from the point of view of a medieval child from a variety of w...
I will disclose that I've never been a very avid reader of plays; even when they are fantastic, I have a more difficult time getting into them and sometimes appreciating them. It helps if I see or have seen them performed. Additionally, this book was so unique that it was very hard for me to get a g...
As impressive as this Newbery winner was the first go around when I read it to myself, hearing it performed as it was meant to be was splendid indeed.
Series of dramatic poems from the point of view of young adults in a medieval village. I enjoyed them quite a bit, although I felt in several poems that Schlitz was projecting a very modern point of view onto her characters. (Feb. 2008)
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