Review: Ivanhoe, by Sir Walter Scott
Ivanhoe by Walter Scott
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Own.
My first Scott novel, but not my last. A very interesting and entertaining novel of the days of Richard Lion-Heart.
View my Goodreads.com reviews >>
A Healer’s Geste
A notable adventure of wrongs righted
Healing my little corner of the world, one glass of spilt milk at a time.
"We should train children so that we should be able to honor them with a generous confidence; and if we give them that confidence we shall find they justify it." -- Charlotte Mason
Simple, Fast Planning Help
I’ve never read it. Would it be appropriate for children at all? I am always looking for something for my E. to read. He just finished re-reading Stevenson’s The Black Arrow, and I need to keep challenging him in his free reading. Would this work? I am thinking this way because I know that he loves the stories of Richard the Lion Heart in general when we read them for British history…
I think it’d be a good one for E., especially since he’s already used to older usage through Ambleside. I was thinking it would make a good read-aloud for us once Matt finishes LOTR.
The qualification I would make is that it does comment on the Knights Templar ravishing their way through Palestine, and one of the story lines is a Templar trying to seduce a Jewess (by word, not action). It is absolutely not graphic or shocking (even to his readers), but you might still want to at least skim it for “Templar” to make sure it’s appropriate.
Robin Hood is in the story, too. The main theme of the novel is societal/class injustices and ironies (like drunk monks), yet it keeps a mostly light-hearted mood about it, as though such things are inevitable.
Hmmm…sounds like I need to get it and skim it quick–we start Howard Pyle’s Robin Hood in a few weeks, and that’d be a perfect corresponding read-aloud or free read, from the sound of it. Thanks so much!
Hope you are doing well, you mommy of four you. ;)