Amazing Castle Facts for Kids: 50 Real Castles, Fortresses and Palaces From Around the World — Photos, True Stories a Quiz

In 1271 the strongest fortress in the world was taken without a fight. An army had battered its walls for five weeks and got nowhere. Then a letter arrived, telling the knights inside that their commander allowed them to surrender. They opened the gates and walked out. The letter was a fake.That fortress is still standing in Syria, and it is one of 50 real places in this book - castles, fortresses and palaces on five continents, every one photographed where it stands today.Real photographs, not drawings. Most castle books for children are illustrated. This one is not. Every page shows a full-color photograph of a place your child could actually visit - and one short, true story about what happened there.Some of what is inside: ◆ A fortress with 8 sides, 8 towers and 8 rooms, and nobody knows why it was built ◆ Dracula's castle, where Dracula never set foot - the writer who invented him never even went to Romania ◆ A guard change where a goat marches in the line, descended from a goat given by the Queen in 1955 ◆ Fountains in Sri Lanka that have worked for 1,500 years with no pump and no engine ◆ Two iron cannons left on the sand by a defeated army in 1434, still lying there today ◆ A castle whose marble was carted off from one of the seven wonders of the ancient world ◆ An ancient fort in India that survived 800 years of sieges and is now being destroyed by tap water ◆ A ruined castle in Slovakia where a colony of ground squirrels has moved inBuilt for short attention spans. One page, one photograph, one story you can read in a minute. No long chapters, no wall of text. Open it anywhere and start.A 20-question quiz at the back, with answers on the last page, to find out how much your child actually remembers.Great for children aged 5 to 12, for reluctant readers who prefer facts to stories, for homeschool geography and history, and for any child who has ever wondered how a castle really worked.From the TH Sunflower fact books for curious kids.Scroll up and click Add to Cart - and find out which fortress was brought down by a single fake letter!