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Third-grade author pens book set in medieval times

Lincoln elementary third-grader Brady Hanson recently authored a book entitled “King vs. Kings,” which Hanson both wrote and illustrated. Anna Burnham, teacher-librarian at Lincoln, helped with some editing. (Press photo James Grob.)
Lincoln elementary third-grader Brady Hanson recently authored a book entitled “King vs. Kings,” which Hanson both wrote and illustrated. Anna Burnham, teacher-librarian at Lincoln, helped with some editing. (Press photo James Grob.)
By James Grob, jgrob@charlescitypress.com

Lincoln elementary third-grader Brady Hanson likes books about knights, kings and the Middle Ages — but he couldn’t find enough of them at his school library.

So he wrote one of his own.

“It came from school — in the library, they didn’t have too many ‘knight’ books, so I grabbed some research and did a little story from that,” said Hanson, who is in Alyssa Davis’s third-grade class at Lincoln.

“He was interested in medieval times, and we didn’t have too much here,” said Anna Burnham, teacher-librarian at Lincoln. “We got him some books from the middle school, and then I purchased some for him.”

The result of that research is a book called “King vs. Kings,” which Hanson both wrote and illustrated, and it’s the newest literary addition to the Lincoln school library.

“It’s mostly kind of a kids book,” said Hanson, who looked at both fiction and non-fiction books as he researched the Middle Ages, and said the research took him more than three weeks.

“We’ve had a couple of students who have already checked it out,” said Burnham.

Hanson transferred his original work to a computer with the help of his father, who also helped him type it up. Burnham assisted with some editing, as some types of punctuation are still above the third-grade level.

Hanson said his dad makes snowmobile magazines, so he already has some insight into the world of writing and publishing, which is a field he is interested in pursuing.

“It’s basically about a good king vs. two very bad kings,” Hanson said of the story, which is written in the third person. “They’re fighting for a country during the Middle Ages.”

Hanson said the kings are fighting because one wants to get a little more room, and the others want to fight back and keep their territory. One of the knights in the book is named after Brady.

Hanson wrote the book in his free time — the project was not part of the regular third-grade classroom assignments.

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