![]() ![]() For his own part, the Mason can see nothing worthwhile in Gabriel and draws inordinate pleasure from making fun of him for his ineptitude, his looks and, most of all, his mass of curling golden hair. From an adult perspective it’s charming but painted in rather broad strokes.Įleven-year-old Gabriel is apprenticed to the Mason, a brutish, impatient man who has no time for teaching or nurturing the boys in his care. I’m completely out of practice in judging the correct reading age for a children’s book, but I would hazard a guess that this would probably be best suited for nine to twelve-year-olds. In the end I bought it because, after all, it is a historical novel, set in the medieval period. The cover caught my eye about four years ago, with its glorious sweep of peacocks’ feathers, and I’ve found myself coming back to admire the design ever since (it is much more beautiful than the covers of other editions I’ve seen on LibraryThing). ![]() First things first: this is a children’s book, and I was never under any illusions about that. ![]()
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