Alfred Noyes's famous poem still has the power to thrill us as we read the story of the highwayman and his doomed love for Bess, the landlord's black-eyed daughter. Charles Keeping's stunning illustrations won this book the Kate Greenaway Medal in 1982. The paperback is now reissued with a new cover.
An orphaned farm lad, found in a hen's nest, meets Grimbold, a cat that lives in the world of night, and kindly helps rescue various creatures of the darkness from their problems.
This study focuses on creation myths, the conflict between good and evil, and on legends of heroes, prophets and holy men. These folk-tales and fables are taken from Greek, Norse, African, Polynesian, Hebrew, Indian, Chinese and American Indian sources.
Written by the winner of the 1987 Emil/Kurt Maschler Award, this is a book of poems for children. Charles Causley's collection for adults was "A Field of Vision". He was awarded the Queen's Medal for poetry in 1967 and was appointed a CBE in 1986 for his services to poetry.
This is the story of a young warrior who travelled far across the sea to fight two terrifying monsters--one who could rip a man apart and drink his blood, the other who lived like a sea-wolf at the bottom of a dark, blood-stained lake. His name was Beowulf and his story, first written in Anglo-Saxon in the 8th century, has become one of the world ...
This is the story of a young warrior who travelled far across the sea to fight two terrifying monsters -- one who could rip a man apart and drink his blood, the other who lived like a sea-wolf at the bottom of a dark, blood-stained lake. His name was Beowulf and his story, first written down in Anglo-Saxon in the eighth century, has become one of ...
Illustrated in black and white throughout by Charles Keeping. The romantic story of the Lady of Shalott is here presented in haunting and evocative pictures in this successor to Keeping's award-winning version of `The Highwayman'.
Three evocative stories set in the long-ago range in their settings from Britain's Bronze Age to Norman England, recounting great battles fought in the name of country by heroic figures.
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