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

TH Sunflower

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798188796112

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

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 in

Built 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!

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798188796112
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 57
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg