The author of this article, who writes a series of Arthurian books, states that Arthurian retellings for children often fall into one of two extreme categories: (1) they are prim, romantic, reverential tales with soft-focus illustrations and soft-headed heroes; or (2) they are overt spoofs of the literature, a la Mark Twain and Monty Python. He ponders how best to adapt the Arthurian literature for contemporary readers who may have trouble getting past the accompanying silliness. The author states that, to address this problem, he retells the stories from a single character's perspective, not omniscient narrators. His stories are narrated in the third person, but he only describes events that take place within the perception of his chosen point-of-view character, and only a character's private thoughts and emotions are revealed. For the sake of ironic distance, he never chooses one of the great traditional heroes of Arthurian literature for this central role. The article provides examples of his enjoyment of writing "counter-tellings" in how he completely changes the Arthurian narrative technique, entirely reinvents the Arthurian characters, and, while sometimes faithfully presenting the plot of his original, he with minor changes gives each incident in the plot an opposite significance from what was originally intended. While some of the details of the original Arthurian legends may seem silly today, these are not insurmountable problems. Characters can be given real personalities, and silly plot details can be either expunged or exploited for comic effect, all without doing the slightest damage to the original stories. "There is something majestic and eternal about the Arthurian world that begs to be rediscovered," the author writes.