King Arthur Books- Howard Pyle

[Milz]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Rosmerta" <tmayor at m...> wrote:
> Does anyone care to recommend a King Arthur book that'd make a good 
> read-aloud for a 7-yr-old? He can handle fairly sophisticated stuff 
> (he's heard all the HP books twice now and is reading SS by 
> himself....one.....word...at...a....time) but IIRC The Crystal Cave 
> is too complex (isn't that the one that tells Merlin's story, but 
> backwards?) I remember reading--and loving--The Once and Future 
King 
> but can't remember how old I was or how complex it was 
(wait....maybe 
> *that's* the one that goes backwards?) Any suggestions much 
> appreciated. 
> 
> ~Rosmerta
> whose memory has always been rotten; this is not an age thing!

When we were children, one of my brothers was a King Arthur freak. 
One book in his early Arthur collection was by Howard Pyle and aptly 
titled "The Boy's King Arthur" (IIRC my brother bought his copy at a 
garage sale). You might want to look around to see if the Pyle book 
is still in print.

Milz (who owns only one book about King Arthur--"Idylls of the King" 
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson)