King Arthur Books

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--- 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 
>

	I would recommend The Once and Future King, but only the first 
part: The Sword in the Stone.  Merlin does *live backwards* in that 
one, but the story is told from the point of view of young Arthur (The 
Wart) who is living forwards.
	For the rest of the story there's  that old standby The Boy's King 
Arthur, which has Sidney Lanier's abridgement of Malory's beautiful 
language and N.C. Wyeth illustrations to drool over. Yum! 
	Pippin