

The Samurai’s Tale is a novel set in feudal Japan, and begins when our hero Taro, is a four-year-old boy whose powerful samurai father, along with his mother and brothers, are killed by a rival samurai in the fierce struggle for Japanese power. Lewis’ famous quote about stories worth reading. This year has been one filled with books which fully meet the standard of C.S. It has been a pleasure to read these book in a way that does not describe the books our older kids, who were public schooled, were assigned to read. This, like many of the books I’ve read over the past several months, is a book I only read becuase it was assigned to one of our children as a literature assignment. The Samurai’s Tale, by Erik Christian Haugaard.
