Sir Christian de Galis and the Fish Gravy
Sir
Christian de Galis and the Fish Gravy, by Carl E. Ramsey
(Westbow
Press, 2014), pb., 242 pp.
Ages
10-15
This
is a comical take on the stories of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.
The author obviously knows the Arthurian legends well as he uses aspects of the
traditional stories and plays off of them en route to make a moral or spiritual
point. However, the humor and its nuance was often beyond the reach of my 7 and
9 year old to whom I was reading. The story reads like slapstick and in that
genre there is a fine line between being hilarious and just too odd to follow.
It didn’t work for us, but in another setting with a slightly older audience it
might work very well.
posted by Ray Van Neste @ 7:16 AM
1 comments
1 Comments:
As the author I have been so busy selling the book, that this is the first time I saw this blog. The book was written for grownups down through middle school. Although it loosely fell into the category all-ages, that's a misinterpretation. It was never intended for seven through nine year-olds. People who like The Princess Bride, The Once and Future King, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and C.S. Lewis stories for the older children pick right up on it. The genre is screwball comedy, which I studied closely while developing the tale. Carl E. Ramsey 8/18/2015
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