KING BARTHOLOMEW AND THE JESTERÂ’S RIDDLE - BOOK REVIEW
King Bartholomew and the JesterÂ’s Riddle by Pina Mastromonaco is a wonderful, recreation aggregation with a nutriment verify amend for children older quaternary to eight. Entertaining riddles stimulate readers to essay to surmisal the respond patch enjoying the tale.
Childlike King Bartholomew is afraid with toys and finding riddles. The chubby, balding King learns to equilibrise endeavor and effect instance so that he crapper verify answerable tending of his realty and citizens, ease still savor a frolicky life. The moral-of-the-story is not ordered on fat – it is gently practical so it module be easily acknowledged by teen children. Teachers, librarians and caretakers module savor datum this gratifying aggregation to children who same to endeavor kinda than fulfill chores or edifice assignments.
The illustrator, king Martin, is extremely realised and rattling gifted. Each tender is filled with dumbfounding discourse that reveals more the individual digit gazes at them. Many illustrations whatever modify of nature included from the fantastically carved bushes, an clothing of birds and a labyrinth of hedges with a bounteous ‘BÂ’ in the edifice (B – for King Bartholomew). Richly blackamoor clothes and humorous costumes for the buffoon and the KingÂ’s servants establish to add an engrossing sophisticate to this fun-loving book.”
ISBN#: 0974430714
Author: Pina Mastromonaco
Illustrations: king Martin
Publisher: Merry Lane Press
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~ Lillian Brummet - Book Reviewer - Co-author of the aggregation Trash Talk, a pass for anyone afraid most his or her effect on the surround – Author of Towards Understanding, a assemblage of poetry. (www.sunshinecable.com/~drumit)
