Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! facts for kids
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| Author | Laura Amy Schlitz |
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| Language | English |
| Published | July 24, 2007 Candlewick Press |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover, paperback) |
| Pages | 96 |
| Awards | Newbery Medal |
| ISBN | 0-7636-1578-1 |
| OCLC | 53178700 |
| 812.6 | |
| LC Class | PS3619.C43 C55 2007 |
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village is a special children's book written by Laura Amy Schlitz. It came out in 2007. This book won the famous 2008 Newbery Medal. This award is given to the best children's book published in America.
Discovering a Medieval Village
This book is not like a regular story with a beginning, middle, and end. Instead, it's a collection of short speeches. Each speech is called a monologue. Each one is spoken by a different young person living in a medieval village.
Imagine listening to the thoughts and feelings of kids from long ago! Most characters speak alone. But a few, like Petronella and Jacob, or Mariot and Maud, have short conversations called dialogues.
How the Book Was Created
Laura Amy Schlitz, the author, is also a librarian. She first wrote these speeches for her fifth-grade students. They performed them at the Park School of Baltimore. This means the book is almost like a play. It helps you really hear the "voices" of these medieval children.
The book has nineteen monologues and two dialogues. The characters are very different. You'll hear from a boy who ran away from home. You'll also hear from the daughter of the village lord.
Meet the Villagers
Here are the young people you'll meet in Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!. They appear in this order in the book:
- Hugo, the Lord's nephew
- Taggot, the blacksmith's daughter
- Will, the plowboy
- Alice, the shepherdess
- Thomas, the doctor's son
- Constance, the pilgrim
- Mogg, the villein's daughter
- Otho, the miller's son
- Jack, the half-wit
- Simon, the knight's son
- Edgar, the falconer's son
- Isobel, the Lord's daughter
- Barbary, the mud slinger
- Jacob Ben Salomon, the moneylender's son and Petronella, the merchant's daughter
- Lowdy, the varlet's child
- Pask, the runaway
- Piers, the glassblower's apprentice
- Mariot and Maud, the glassblower's daughters
- Nelly, the sniggler
- Drogo, the tanner's apprentice
- Giles, the beggar
