European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 28, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Doily Magazine routes of the childrens crusade h in the footsteps of a childrens crusade Evan Rhodes is an author who goes to great lengths to research a Book like about that How far he much of it on to retrace the route of childrens crusade of 1212 for his historical an army of just published by the dial in a stickler for the dark 49yearold Rhodes said in his wow Stone apartment in new Yorks Greenwich Village i knew that Jess i literally walked the route the Chil i could not describe How cold an rjae pass or How hot the Sinai desert Rhodes spent eight weeks in 197s travel ing from to Jerusalem Over the route he believed was used in 1212 an ill fated German childrens it was led by a 10yearold boy who had followers aging in age from 6 to their route through the Over the to Genoa and and finally to the holy the author returned to Europe in the of 1976 for three More weeks of after he determined that the Cru had gone Over the Alps through the Gotthard pass rather than through the Cenis pass he rented a car and Driver both i in not he said according to a Pedometer be strapped to his be walked 571 of the the most difficult parts of the trip walking Over the Gotthard said who lost 20 pounds during the and travelling in the Sinai desert it was so hot that it was the 6foot3lnch author said he flew from Rome to Tel where he talked the Israel defense ministry into supplying him with an armoured Mercedes by Karl Swanson car and an armed guide for the trip to the Sinai desert i told them it was for the and it he smiling its a Book about of people relating to each other on the purest human the books heroes Are a 14yearold Christian boy named and his a 13yearold jewish boy named whose preceding the author Evan Rhodes a Book about brotherhood Prince Central was about an 11 year old boy living in a tree in Central said he had chosen to write about the relatively unknown childrens crusade be cause of a series of dreams he had in i saw thousands of children marching and holding he i just  shake it was too pressing in my too i went Back into history and discovered the childrens i found it was so Little known and so nor Renous that i decided it was time somebody wrote something about Rhodes found in his research for an army children dial that there were two arms of the childrens crusade one was French and led by a 12yearold Shep Stephen of Cloyes the which Rhodes concentrated was a total of boys and Girts took be and they us Oft they could do what four Prev com adult Era fades and to Ouaas of armed knights could not do with love As their Only weapon reclaim Jerusalem and the Christian shrines from the infidel very if of those children Ever did reach Rhodes thou Sands or or were kidnapped and sold into slavery in North the closest parallel was the Flower children of the Rhodes their motivation was just As and they were just As fired by if it we rent for those children constantly telling us what was the War in Southeast Asia would still be going who divides his time be tween new York and key said be hoped he did not become Type cast As a writer of books abort Chil he said he enjoyed nothing More than writing about children in and that very tremulous moment when a Young person senses it seems to be the turning Point in the Way a person will evolve As a human a paused for a few maybe its because i never had any children of my be new York times the stars and stripes Page 13