Kings and Queens

Remember those halcyon days of childhood when many of the stories which we read depicted characters and scenes with great simplicity? Today, in the more realistic world of children's fiction, we seem to have turned our backs on this type of basic storytelling ... royalty, namely this 'poetic' masterpiece Kings and Queens. Now a page of verse and an illustration about each monarch may seem to be a good way to learn about history, but take the contents with a pinch of salt, for the bias is often extreme. The period flavour of the book plus Robin Jacques' excellent drawings will be a selling point, though mostly to nostalgic adults I fear!