Presents color-illustrated details for children on life in medieval castles, covering such aspects as fashion, food, entertainment, and knights' duties, and provides step-by-step instructions for twelve castle-related projects.
While spending the summer with elderly relatives at Clawstone Castle in northern England, Madlyn and her brother Rollo, with the help of several ghosts, attempt to save the rare cattle that live on the castle grounds.
Describes hauntings and creepy historic happenings at eleven castles in Europe and Japan, including the Tower of London and Vlad the Impaler's Poienari Castle.
Geronimo Stilton and his family travel to Penny Pincher Castle to visit his uncle, Samuel S. Stingysnout, and tries to uncover who, or what, is behind the creepy occurrences that have been taking place at the castle.
Text and three-dimensional illustrations explore castle life and the experiences of knights, examining the castle's many uses as a fortress and a palace; and discussing knights in the Middle Ages and the Crusades as well as what it took to become a knight, methods of fighting, armor and weapons, and jousting.
Examines how and why castles were originally constructed during the medieval period and describes life in a castle, how they were defended, the feudal system, and types of castles that were built.
