NewHumorous History · Ages 8–12 · $7.99
King Matthias (the Just) Returns: Adventures in the 21st Century
A green-violet bolt of lightning strikes a city park, and in the smoking circle lies a man in a velvet cloak with a crown on his head. Lili and Marci think it's a film shoot. Then the man asks them what year it is. Five hundred years haven't made King Matthias forget what truth is — he just doesn't know what a password is, or an influencer, or fake news. Two eleven-year-olds teach him the 21st century. In return, he teaches them something that hasn't changed in five hundred years either. Twenty chapters, twenty real situations: a classmate bullied by an anonymous account, a student who lets AI write his essay, an influencer selling miracle cream, a made-up story that sweeps the school in minutes. No chapter preaches, and none of them ends with "technology is bad."









