castles

Jack and Annie travel back to the Middle Ages, where they explore a castle and are helped by a mysterious knight.

Describes how castles were built, their various uses, their defenses and building sites and the decline of the castle.

Provides basic information about the uses of castles during the middle ages along with a series of puzzles in which the reader is invited to find various objects in pictures of castles.

Text and illustrations describe daily life inside a medieval castle and how the castle was designed as a fortress to keep out invaders.

Knights in shining armor, tales of valor and bravery, magnificent castles rising out of the mist--they're all here in this four-part video that looks at some aspects of life in the Middle Ages. Learn about the feudal society, the armor that protected knights and soldiers, the castles that guarded a lord and his people against attack. Then study the legend that epitomizes the spirit of medieval times--the tale of King Arthur.

Two children, Jack and Annie, discover a mysterious tree house and are swept away to the world of the dinosaurs, a medieval Great Hall, a tomb in ancient Egypt, and a pirate ship, unsure how to get home.