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Arthur: The Seeing Stone
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Series: Arthur
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Arthur: The Seeing Stone
A new take on the Arthurian legends, interwoven with a story set in medieval times
A crossover into the adult market Winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Award Shortlisted for the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year Winner of the Smarties Prize, Bronze Award Unprecedented rights sales in 18 countries already Fantastic review coverage First title in the Arthur trilogy: AT THECROSSING-PLACES follows in August 'This book is a thing of beauty, and evidently a labour of love' Sunday Times 'this timely and wholly wonderful awakening' Times Educational Supplement 'has a remarkably contemporary feel as fantasy, history and Arthurian legend collide' The Guardian Solus colour advertising on the front-page of the Independent
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The year is 1199, the place the Welsh Marches. Young Arthur de Caldicot is given a 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
'Instantly evokes T H White's The Once and Future King in blending the pastoral idyll of a medieval manor with the myths of King Arthur. There the similarity ends – this is truly a crossover book, settling in the interesting space between children's and adult fiction.' – The Times
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780752844299
Publisher: Hachette Children's Group
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 June 2001
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Orion Children's Books
Illustration: 2 Maps
Audience: Teenage
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 30.0mm
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 280g
Pages: 352
About the Author
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. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. The Seeing Stone won the prestigious Guardian Children's Fiction Prize for 2001 and At The Crossing-Places on a Silver award at the 2001 SWPA Spoken Word Awards.
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