I had mixed feelings about this book, on one hand it was super encouraging that no matter your circumstances, no matter your disability, you can and will be anything you want if you just try hard enough. Which is a fairly common theme of books and life. However it can also be very disheartening to be told it doesn’t matter if something is wrong with you, you should just do it anyway, this kid did it so why can't you? But without going too deep into any of that, it was a story about an underdog child during the middle ages who had so much hope of becoming a knight like his father only to think his chances were blown after a brief illness that caused him to lose the use of his legs.
They talk a lot about the plague and different things that went on during the middle ages and the boy has a lot of help and encouragement from everyone he comes across, but they all expect him to carry his weight regardless of not being able to walk. He is taught to carve things starting out small and eventually moving on to crutches and then a harp, because, and this part I liked, Music is good for the soul and helps to heal.
It was definitely unrealistic, but fun just the same, and I think as a kid I would have loved it because of course I loved a good story about being a hero.
Does someone die? Yep.
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