Keppeler, Jill
Summary: Text and photographs look at how to build castles in Minecraft, focusing on how to build arches, drawbridges, towers, and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2019
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Summary: Describes the origins, main features, and destruction of medieval castles, and discusses the way of life of the people who lived in them, knighthood and sieges.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Published in the USA by EDC Pub. 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE TURMacdonald, Fiona
Summary: Traces the history of the samurai castles of medieval Japan with information on the role of samurai, shogun, and women in feudal Japanese society, on religious beliefs, and on arms and armor of the period.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Peter Bedrick Books 1995
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 952 MACFabiny, Sarah
Summary: "Castles may conjure up a romantic fairy tale world; however, in real life, during the Middle Ages, castles were fortresses, providing shelter and protection for the lord as well as for the peasants who lived on his land. For an army, a lord depended on young soldiers in armor called knights who spent years at the castle learning the skills of warfare"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 929.7 FABCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT World What FabinyGravett, Christopher
Summary: "Discover the medieval world of castles -- how they were built and what life was like inside them"--from cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1994
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Summary: Describes the origins, main features, and destruction of medieval castles, and discusses the way of life of the people who lived in them, knighthood and sieges.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Published in the USA by EDC Pub. 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Around Usb TurnbullSummary: Unlock mysteries and uncover lost history with the experts as they use yesteryear's technology to recreate five ancient engineering marvels and to discover what daily life was really like in these communities. Travel around the globe from China to Egypt and take a fresh, "hands-on" look at mankind's greatest cultures and civilizations.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SECCullis, Megan
Summary: Provides an opportunity to take a visual tour around some of the most impressive palaces around the world, including the French Palace of Versailles, Henry VIII's Hampton Court Palace in England, the Alhambra in Spain, Topkapi in Istanbul and the Amber Fort in India.
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Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Publishing 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 942 CulMoss, Miriam.
Summary: Brief text and labeled illustrations discuss the history and architecture of several forts and castles, focusing on the protection they afforded and mechanisms used in siege against them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Raintree Steck-Vaughn 1994
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 355.7 MOSSteele, Philip
Summary: This children's history book has everything you need to know about medieval castles, including knights, jousting, sieges, drawbridges, and forts. Learn about castle design, from the earliest motte and bailey styles to stone fortresses and beautiful castles in Japan and India.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dorling Kindersley Limited 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355.7094 TOYWheatley, Abigail
Summary: This is a non-fiction book for very young children, who will find lots of things to look at and talk about in this highly visual book about what it was like to live in a castle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Publishing 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 623 WHEGagliardi, Sue
Summary: Explores how a castle's design helps it fulfill its purpose, and challenges readers to build their own cardboard castles. Vivid photographs and easy-to-read text aid comprehension for early readers. Features include a table of contents, an infographic, a supply list, Think About It critical thinking questions, Making Connections questions, a glossary, and an index.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DiscoverRoo 2021
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Summary: In this first-ever standalone full-color edition, Castle is lavishly reborn in digitally finished drawings rendered with felt-tip markers and colored pencils. Factual and artistic details shine in light of newly researched information. With characteristic zest and wit. Architecture enthusiasts of all ages will marvel at the staggering possibilities of human imagination and ingenuity.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Design MacaulayBergin, Mark
Summary: Presents step-by-step instructions for drawing different types of knights, castles, and other medieval structures.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 743.87 BERBiesty, Stephen.
Summary: Working from plans of an actual 14th century European castle, Stephen Biesty has sliced the building into various cross-sections, each one teeming with life and detail.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.1 BIEGravett, Christopher
Summary: "Discover the medieval world of castles -- how they were built and what life was like inside them"--from cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1994
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 623 GRAMacaulay, David.
Summary: Text and detailed drawings follow the planning and construction of a "typical" castle and adjoining town in thirteenth-century Wales.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1977
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 623.19 MAC2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 623.19429 MAC
Osborne, Will.
Summary: Jack and Annie look at knights, armor, and life in a castle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.1 OSBCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Series Osborne 1993Summary: It may be more famous now than any time in its 1,300-year history as the setting of Downton Abbey, but England's Highclere Castle has its own stories to tell. In its heyday, Highclere was the social epicenter of Edwardian England. See how all the inhabitants of Highclere lived, from the aristocrats above to the army of servants toiling 'below stairs'. Also find out from the current inhabitants,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SECCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SECCorbett, Judy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ebury Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 942.9 CORMacaulay, David.
Summary: Take a tour of a medieval castle. Every part of the castle has a function. Walls keep the enemy out. Towers protect the lord and the soldiers. From the moat and portcullis to the great hall and dungeon, see how a castle works as an enemy army tries to storm the walls.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Square Fish/David Macaulay Studio 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Around MacaulayCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MACPlatt, Richard.
Summary: Cross-sectional illustrations present an inside view of a medieval castle.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dorling Kindersley Ltd. 1994