Tamburlaine's Elephants
A new outlaw has come to Sherwood Forest. He has lost everything. But Robin of Locksley is too angry to sit down and cry. He puts his hunting horn to his lips and blows...
Pelican Guided Reading
Adrift on a cold, deep ocean, with nothing in common but the raft they share, men and women from a world of different places start to argue. How did the world begin? And who made it? And why?
Longman Book Project
'McCaughrean could rewrite the shipping forecast and make it sound riveting
- she has a wonderful talent for drawing children straight into the story'
Sunday Telegraph
The Orchard Book of Starry Tales
Illustrated by SOPHY WILLIAMS
What do you see when you look up at night? A plough? A great bear? Or a circle of chiefs sitting at a pow-pow? For thousands of years, around the world, Man has seen shapes and pictures in the night sky and created stories to account for them.
Orchard Children's Books
McElderry Books (US)
'...has a muscular quality to the
writing that reflects the spirit of the original.'
Times Educational Supplement
A book of the chivalry, honour and treachery of this bygone age, recounting the downfall of Merlin, the cursed love of Lancelot and Guinevere, the quests of knights brave and true, and Arthur's inevitable fate, along with lesser known tales of the Round Table.
Macdonald Young Books
Doubleday Review (US)
'A brilliant tour de force'
Junior Bookshelf (US)
Have you ever wondered what lies behind the doves and pagodas on a Willow Pattern tea-cup? Or asked yourself whose beauty inspired the Taj Mahal?
Orchard Children's Books
'A handsome retelling...vigorous, dynamic prose'
The Horn Book Guide (US)
The legend of St George, the Dragon-Slayer, recounting the story of how a vile dragon, fathered by Evil and born of Darkness, rose from a pool outside a tranquil town's gates, how it besieged and terrorised the town, and how an unknown horseman appeared and slew the horrible creature.
Chief Marshal of the royal army of King Sancho II, Ruy Diaz, fell from favour when Sancho's brother came to the throne. Banished to the south, where Moorish invaders held sway, he fought as a mercenary both for the Moors and against them. But in 1094 he made his greatest mark on history by capturing the stronghold of Valencia. It was the beginning of the end of the Moorish occupation
After ten years of war, Odysseus just wanted to go home. But the journey was long and there were many dangers to overcome - one- eyed giants, beautiful sorceresses, terrifying whirlpools, six-headed sea monsters. Until at last he arrived back, alone and exhausted, to find one hundred fierce warriors waiting for him.
One Thousand and One Arabian Nights
King Shahryar kills a new wife every night, before she
can stop loving him. But a new bride Shahrazad has a clever plan to save
herself. Her nightly stories - of Sinbad the Sailor and Ali Baba - are
so exciting that King Shahryar finds himself postponing her execution again
and again.
Oxford University Press
