Arthur the Seeing Stone

Informationen zum Autor Kevin Crossley-Holland won the Carnegie Medal in 1985 for Storm . His many notable books for adults and children include poetry, classic retellings and anthologies. He has written and presented many BBC radio programmes and is a frequent speaker at schools and libraries. For some years he held a university post in Minnesota and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. The Seeing Stone won the prestigious Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, At The Crossing-Places won a Silver award at the SWPA Spoken Word Awards and Gatty's Tale was shortlisted for the 2008 Carnegie Medal. Klappentext Medieval life meets Arthurian magic in a novel that transcends boundaries of time and age, appealing to children of 9+ and older readers alike. The winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the Smarties Prize bronze award in 2001, this timeless novel is stunningly reissued for a new generation. The year is 1199, the place the Welsh Marches. Young Arthur de Caldicot is given a magical shining stone in which his legendary namesake is revealed. In 100 short chapters that brilliantly evoke life in a medieval manor, stories of the boy King Arthur begin to echo - and anticipate - the secrets and mysteries that emerge in his own life . . . "As bright and as vivid as the pictures in a Book of Hours. Deep scholarship, high imagination, and great gifts of storytelling have gone into this; I was spellbound." - Philip Pullman, The Guardian Medieval life and Arthurian magic in a novel that transcends boundaries, with appeal for children of 9+ and older readers alike. Zusammenfassung Medieval life and Arthurian magic in a novel that transcends boundaries, with appeal for children of 9+ and older readers alike.

Product details

• Authors: Kevin Crossley-hollan, Kevin Crossley-Holland, Crossley-Holland Kevin
• Publisher: Orion Children's Books
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 9 to 12
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.06.2001
• EAN: 9780752844299
• ISBN: 978-0-7528-4429-9
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 198 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Arthur
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Children's books up to 11 years of age; Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure / General, JUVENILE FICTION / Fairy Tales & Folklore / General, JUVENILE FICTION / Fantasy & Magic, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Fantasy / General, JUVENILE FICTION / Legends, Myths, Fables / General, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Fairy Tales & Folklore / Adaptations, Interest age: from c 9 years, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Traditional stories, For National Curriculum Key Stage 3 (England and Wales), For National Curriculum Key Stage 3, For secondary education