Arthur: The Seeing Stone: Book 1
By Author / Illustrator
Kevin Crossley-Holland
Genre
Myths & Legends
Age range(s)
9+
Publisher
Orion Children's Books
ISBN
9780752844299
Format
Paperback / softback
Published
01-06-2001
Synopsis
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.
Full series: The Seeing Stone (book 1); Arthur at the Crossing Places (book 2) ; Arthur: King of the Middle March (book 3)
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