6/8/2023 0 Comments Elizabeth I by Kathryn Lasky![]() Review 2: I'm curious what the author was thinking targeting the ten-year-old girl as the audience for this book. Really, what more could you ask for in historical fiction?I give this book 3.5/5 stars, rounded up to 4 stars for Goodreads rating purposes. Young readers will sympathize with Elizabeth while learning a great deal about Tudor England. And we also see how she yearns for her father’s acknowledgement of her, how she treasures every smile or every bit of encouragement he gives her.The plot isn’t what I would normally call fast-paced, but it is interesting enough. more skills that were unusual for women of the time, like archery, falconry and languages like Greek and Latin. ![]() We really see the woman she will become later on as she learns. Elizabeth is a good main character and a very interesting narrator as she is strong even when she is betrayed and mistreated by her own father, King Henry VIII. In this installment of the Royal Diaries, Kathryn Lasky presents a Rated G version of Elizabeth’s teenage years for people ages 10-12.This book really contains no new information for me, but readers who have yet to discover the wonders of historical fiction will love it. ![]() Pretty much everyone knows she was a good queen and some people know what she accomplished during her reign (like outlawing wife-beating after 10:00pm, according to one of my Bathroom Readers), but not many really know much about her childhood and teenage years. ![]()
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