Bartholomew Fair

By Mary Stolz

Book Overview

On an August day in 1598 six people, including Queen Elizabeth, a wealthy cloth merchant, a scullery maid, two schoolboys, and an overworked apprentice, attend London's Bartholomew's Fair and come away with unforgettable experiences.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688115012
• ISBN13: 9780688115012
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Beech Tree Books
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.8" x 5.5"
• Age Range: 11 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 6 and higher

Customer Reviews

The fair is a crossroads of life and anything can happen

Its too bad that this book is out of print. B.F. is a book that shows the classes that live next to each other every day. From the queen's elaborate "toilette" to the servants ignominious treatment. The merchant though rich is not spared the pain of lonliness. Most of all it shows how (with syncronicity) each of us touch others every day. Six may go to the fair but only 5 return. Stolz paints a rememberable picture of life in England.