For Jess. – G. L.
For Jacob. –
C. P.
Milo the Knight
Text copyright © 2024 Grégoire Laforce
Illustration copyright © 2024 Charlotte Parent
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Editorial and art direction by Nadine Robert Book design by Jolin Masson
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These illustrations were done in colored pencil. The floral compositions and illuminations are inspired by manuscripts from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, notably the Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany (1503–1508), illuminated by Jean Bourdichon, and the Rothschild Prayerbook (c. 1500–1520), completed by several Flemish illuminators. The medieval architecture and the scene in the city are inspired by The Allegory of Good and Bad Government (1338–1339), frescoes painted by Ambrogio Lorenzetti in Siena, Italy.
Title: Milo the Knight / Grégoire Laforce ; illustrations, Charlotte Parent.
Names: Laforce, Grégoire, author. | Parent, Charlotte, illustrator.
Identifiers: Canadiana 20230075304 | ISBN 9781990252358
Classification: LCC PS8623.A3597 M55 2024 | DDC jC813/.6—dc23
ISBN: 978-1-990252-35-8
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We gratefully acknowledge for their financial support of our publishing program the Canada Council for the Arts and the Government of Canada.
by Grégoire Laforce
This is Milo. Milo is a knight. And like most knights, he is brave and proud.
Milo’s father was a knight, his father’s father was a knight, and so on and so forth. You get the picture. Milo takes being a knight very seriously. No time for fun and games, he’s got work to do, like scrubbing his shield or polishing his sturdy armor.
Besides, Milo sleeps in his armor,
he drinks in his armor,
he even rakes in his armor. He never takes it off!
Milo has friends too. Most of them are knights, but sometimes he wishes he could have other friends, like the court jesters, who are always up to something fun.
He wishes he could be like them, dancing and laughing without a care.
But Milo is a knight, and knights will be knights.
“Those jesters are so inconsiderate anyways. I’m the only one who can protect this colony!” thought Milo.
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