Yet another request for book help
When working on the Arthur chapter of the History Book - which is totally steepholm's baby, BTW* it occurred to me that it would be nice to have a couple of books that didn't have any mention of Arthur to set against the ones we were discussing. Not just out of the pool of all books in the world that are not in any way Arthurian, obviously. What we were looking for is books set in the period where the historical Arthur is placed, whenever an historical Arthur is postulated. We couldn't come up with one, which seemed significant but not in any way conclusive. So, this is where we look to our extremely well-read flists. Again.
The specs are:
1) Children's or YA
2) set in Britain
3) late 5th to 6th century
4) no mention of Arthur, Arturos, Idris, Pendragon, etc.
5) We're primarily looking at books that are still being read by kids today, but it would still be useful to hear about older, more obscure ones too.
* The chapter on Arthur, that is, to which I have essentially contributed only by reading a couple of books I hated and telling steepholm they weren't going to be of any use to us. Negative reading is almost as useless as negative proof, but not quite!
The specs are:
1) Children's or YA
2) set in Britain
3) late 5th to 6th century
4) no mention of Arthur, Arturos, Idris, Pendragon, etc.
5) We're primarily looking at books that are still being read by kids today, but it would still be useful to hear about older, more obscure ones too.
* The chapter on Arthur, that is, to which I have essentially contributed only by reading a couple of books I hated and telling steepholm they weren't going to be of any use to us. Negative reading is almost as useless as negative proof, but not quite!