Sword and Flame

Simon Farrell and Jon Sutherland
Published by Dragon
0-583-30917-8, £1.95

Sword and Flame is an addition to the excellent 'Gamebooks' series from Grafton. Based on the commendable notion of reader-involvement, the books require a response from the youngster, while the game aspect acts as a motivation for the, albeit basic, inquiry into historical evidence of the period, in this case the English Civil War. Anything that encourages children to become involved in historical evidence is to be welcomed; in the process they have to weigh facts in an analytical manner as a mean of reaching balanced decisions and judgments - a valuable ability in life outside the classroom.

Reviewed in BfK No. 42 (January 1987) by Bill Boyle (BB)
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