Text copyright © 2000 by Will Osborne and Mary Pope Osborne
Illustrations copyright © 2000 by Sal Murdocca
Cover photograph copyright © Dave Nagel/Liaison Agency
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Osborne, Will.
Knights and castles / by Will Osborne and Mary Pope Osborne; illustrated by Sal Murdocca.
p. cm. — (Magic tree house fact tracker)
Includes index.
“A nonfiction companion to Magic Tree House #2: The Knight at Dawn by Mary Pope Osborne.”
“Originally published by Random House Children’s Books, New York, in 2000.”
eISBN: 978-0-307-97509-6
1. Knights and knighthood—Europe—Juvenile literature.
2. Castles—Europe—Juvenile literature. 3. Civilization, Medieval—Juvenile literature. I. Osborne, Mary Pope. II. Murdocca, Sal, ill. III. Osborne, Mary Pope. Knight at dawn. IV. Title. V. Series.
CR4529.E85 O84 2011 940.1—dc22 2011006597
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