Presents true or false questions and answers about medieval times.

Learn about in inhabitants and histories of castles and the battles, dungeons, and secret passageways in them.

Discover what life was like for a whole year in a castle going month by month.

"Castles may conjure up a romantic fairy tale world; however, in real life, during the Middle Ages, castles were fortresses, providing shelter and protection for the lord as well as for the peasants who lived on his land. For an army, a lord depended on young soldiers in armor called knights who spent years at the castle learning the skills of warfare"--

Today we expect to choose the kind of career we'll have, but it wasn't like that in Europe in the Middle Ages. Whatever work you got, you were stuck with!

History comes alive in this incredible children's illustrated book about castles. Slicing through different areas of a medieval fortress, extraordinary views reveal the people busy inside, preparing for battle as an enemy army approaches. Packed with facts, you'll find out what it takes to build a massive 14th-century castle, dress a knight in armor, or prepare a feast fit for a king or queen. From the drawbridge to the dungeon, Cross-Sections Castle...

Describes the life of knights with their armor and weapons and life inside castles.