King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table-Lb (Great Illustrated Classics (Abdo)) [Library Binding]

Howard Pyle (Author)

Book Description

Series: Great Illustrated Classics (Abdo)

A retelling of the adventures and exploits of King Arthur and his knights at the court of Camelot and elsewhere in the land of the Britons.

Product Details

• Library Binding: 240 pages
• Publisher: Abdo Publishing Company (January 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1577656911
• ISBN-13: 978-1577656913
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,239,848 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This book is very good for children., February 26, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table (Great Illustrated Classics) (Library Binding)

"King Arthur and the knights of The Round Table" is an excellent abridgement of mainly the first but also the end of the fourth of Howard Pyle's unabridged four King Arthor novels. It isn't detailed enough for adults or very advanced kids to enjoy. It got under four stars in my view, but I rounded up. This rating would only meet one for adults. This book has action, magic, and romance and all youngsters will love this version of King Arthor. It has the Athorian basics; such as Arthor suceeding in pulling out the magical sword in the stone to become King of England, breaking this sword in a duel and receiving the more powerful excalibur, the marrige of Arthor to the magestic Guinevire, and Sir Modred trying to take his own uncle's throne. The ending is a tragic one, but I will not give it away. The is only one drawback from this book and that is that this book does not include more than a few sentences about Arthor's knights. It has the Launcelot and Guinevere thing (only having them more innocent), but doesn't say much about the other amazing Knights. I would reccomend for adults or very advanced kids, other books by Howard Pyle and "Morte D' Arthor". "Mortte D' Arthor" is intended for more mature readers, but isn't vulgar and sitcomedys are worse.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A great abidgement for children and younger readers!, February 26, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table (Great Illustrated Classics) (Library Binding)

"King Arthur and the Knights of The Round Table" is an excellent book for readers who are young in age. It isn't quite four stars, but I rounded up. This grade is for children; as an adult book it would be only one star for the lack of detail and blood. This book is based on, the amazing aurthor and artist(unfortunately this book doesn't include his drawings), Howard Pyle's four King Arthur books; though this abridgement only includes some of the tales from the first and last of his series. It includes the basics of most Arthurian tales; the drawing of the seord in the stone, Arthur breaking this and then receiving the even more powerful sword excalibur, and Sir. Modred's atempt to take over the King's throne. This book also includes black and white pictures on every other page and have romantic and action stories which all young children will love. For adults or advanced children, I recommend "Le Morte D' Arthur" and other unabridged books by Howard Pyle. It should be said that "Le Morte D' Arthur has some adult context, though it isn't vulgar and most advanced teens would be fine with it.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Review By Me, February 11, 2005

A Kid's Review

This review is from: King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table (Illustrated Classics Editions) (Paperback)

The story takes place in England in between 500-700 A.D. The main characters in the story are Arthur, who becomes King of England, Merlin, the great sorcerer, Guinevere, Arthurs queen, Morgana, Arhturs evil sister, and Sir Lacelot, Arthurs best friend and world's best knight who also falls in love with Queen Guinevere.The confict is man vs man.
Arthur becomes king of England by pulling the sword form the stone. The archbishop holds a ceremony to aknowledge their new king. Arthur then challenges the black knight because the knight has killed many people passing along the road that the knight is blocking. King Arthur journeys to Guinevere's castle in diguise as a gardener boy. Guinevere and Arthur fall in love an become married. Slowly Sir Lancelot and Guinevere fall in love. The climax of the story is when Sir Lancelot and Guinevere run away with each other to a secret place.
The falling action. King Arthur made peace with Sir Lancelot for he realized that he was wrong for wanting his wife and loyalist friend killed.
The resolution is when King Arthur died and had Sir Bedevere through Excalibur into the lake at which Arhtur first recieved it. And then Arthur slowly disappered.