I’m Sir Lovesabook and I’m here to see if you are

worthy to become a Knight of the Royal

Reading Table.

You must know the parts of a book if you wish to earn your knighthood.

Are you ready?

Do you know what information is found

on the cover of a book?

Let’s see if you do!

What is the name of a book called?

What do you call a person who writes

a book?

What do you call a person who draws

or paints the pictures for a

book?

Title

Author

Illustrator

•The title of the book

•The author’s name

•The illustrator’s name

•The name of the publishing company that made the book after it was written and illustrated

Name 4 things that are found on the

title page of a book.

Can you find the title, author, illustrator and publishing company on this title page?

Title: You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Medieval Knight!

Author: Fiona Macdonald

Illustrator: David Antram

Publishing Company: Franklin Watts

The table of contents lists the name of each chapter and gives the page number

where the chapter begins.

What information will you find in

a table of contents?

Look closely at this table of contents.

What is the name of the chapter that starts on page 10?Which chapter will tell about the gear a knight needs?

The chapter about life in a castle begins on which page?

The glossary gives the definition of words that you may not know when you read the

book.

Why is the glossary such an important part of a

book?

Here is the glossary from a book.

Using this glossary, answer these

questions:What do you call the rules of

good behavior for knights?

What animals do caltrops stop?

What does it mean to cauterize a wound?

Who carried the banner?

The index is an alphabetical list of the topics in a book, and tells on which page information

about the topic may be found.

What is an index?

Look at the Index on the left. On which pages of the

book would I find information on these topics:

chain mail 16-17

battle-axes 18

26, 30caltrops

belfry 22

chivalry

battering ram

6, 30

23

Holy Dragon Wings!

This is not easy but

you can do it!

arrows 20, 23, 24-25, 30

My Dragon, Red Wing, and I have tested you on the parts of a book

including the following:•The information on the cover of the book•The title page

•The table of contents

•The glossary

•The index

Red Wing will now decide if you know the parts of a book well enough to become a knight.

“Red Wing, what do you say?