Knights in Kids books that inspire....

[carvel2]

Sorry about the picture quality but thought you might like these....it might lead me to another army!

[Invisible officer]

Nice Landsknechte, the Schneckenlauf (Snake walk) is mentioned in tactical descriptions. Some day in miniatures???

[stampedingviking]

Where's Wally?

[mikeland]

Are they plates from an Osprey book?

[Biggus Dickus]

Lovely stuff.....I'm certainly going to get into Templars in a big way!

The acceptable gift page......is that for all occasions......or just easter
The battle scene is good!

[Vogless]

Those are a hoot!

Thanks or posting, C!

[grant]

You know, I've been searching for just that right amount of creepy in a gift for a certain someone, and thanks to this picture, I now have an acceptable gift!

[clivethecelt]

Those are lovely, Carvel - did you get those whilst you were in Germany? That's a very acceptable gift - must be a Celt! Perhaps he's a Cymric* knight ... ?
Most of my interest as a child was in WW2, as my grandfather had some old "pictoral history" books printed shortly after the war which fascinated me, though they weren't really "kid's" books. But I did enjoy two quite old books as a teenager which I found in the library in town, Conan-Doyle's "Sir Nigel" and "The White Company". I just enjoyed them for the war stuff, read them voraciously, but when re-reading them only a few years ago (not the originals, they'll be long gone), I was fascinated by the level of detail they contain. The White Company is particularly good as a description of a private "company" in the HYW (IMHO - others might disagree, but it's a cracking read). No pictures to speak of in my new Penguin version, though I don't doubt there's an illustrated copy somewhere in the world!
*How do you spell this ... ????

[carvel2]

@IO....What would the snake walk do?

[Invisible officer]

Ooops, wrong translation. Snail, not snake. (Must have been the TV docu that was running at the background. Outback fauna in Australia)

They trained a lot of crazy looking moves.
Altdorfer's phantastic painting of the Issos battle show a Landsknecht unit that do the snail. The end of a columns is passing the allready engaged front. It looked like a snail shell in training. It was also used to get a column into a round anti cavalry formation.

But I guess your book is simply showing a group marching to the tune of the flute. The marketender is a good indication for that. And the mouse leeding????
But a nice book.