King alfred and the ice coffinh book
Kevin Crossley Holland is a well known poet and prize winning author for children His books include Waterslain Angels a detective story set in north Norfolk in 1955 and Moored Man A Cycle of North Norfolk Poems Gattys Tale a medieval pilgrimage novel and the Arthur trilogy The Seeing Stone At the Crossing Places and King of the Middle March which combines historical fiction with the retelling of Arthurian legend The Seeing Stone won the Guardian Children s Fiction Award and the Smarties Prize Bronze Medal The Arthur trilogy has won worldwide critical acclaim and has been translated into 21 languages. King alfred and the ice coffink full book Crossley Holland has translated Beowulf from the Anglo Saxon and his retellings of traditional tales include The Penguin Book of Kevin Crossley Holland is a well known poet and prize winning author for children His books include Waterslain Angels a detective story set in north Norfolk in 1955 and Moored Man A Cycle of North Norfolk Poems Gatty s Tale a medieval pilgrimage novel and the Arthur trilogy The Seeing Stone At the Crossing Places and King of the Middle March which combines historical fiction with the retelling of Arthurian legend The Seeing Stone won the Guardian Children s Fiction Award and the Smarties Prize Bronze Medal The Arthur trilogy has won worldwide critical acclaim and has been translated into 21 languages. King alfred and the ice coffin kindle unlimited Crossley Holland has translated Beowulf from the Anglo Saxon and his retellings of traditional tales include The Penguin Book of Norse Myths and British Folk Tales reissued as The Magic Lands His collaborations with composers include two operas with Nicola Lefanu The Green Children and The Wildman and one with Rupert Bawden The Sailor s Tale song cycles with Sir Arthur Bliss and William Mathias and a carol with Stephen Paulus for King s College Cambridge His play The Wuffings co authored with Ivan Cutting was produced by Eastern Angles in 1997. King alfred and the ice coffinata He often lectures abroad on behalf of the British Council regularly leads sessions for teachers and librarians and visits primary and secondary schools He offers poetry and prose workshops and talks on the Anglo Saxons and Vikings King Arthur heroines and heroes and myth legend and folk tale. King alfred and the ice coffinf full book After seven years teaching in Minnesota where he held an Endowed Chair in the Humanities Kevin Crossley Holland returned to the north Norfolk coast in East Anglia where he now lives. King alfred and the ice coffinh book He has a Minnesotan wife Linda two sons Kieran and Dominic and two daughters Oenone and Eleanor He is an Honorary Fellow of St Edmund Hall Oxford a patron of the Society of Storytelling and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature site_link Loved the illustrations and so happy to see a tale from King Alfred We have a wondrous tale from a traveling stranger in King Alfred s Hall interwoven with some backstory on Alfred his kingdom and his collection of tales Hardcover E ARC provided by Edelweiss PlusIn the 9th century an explorer named Wolfstan comes to the court of King Alfred Alfred is very interested in stories and has spent a lot of time learning Latin so that he can translate some of the texts into a language that his people can understand He s intrigued by Wolfstan s stories especially one about a Viking King who died His village put him in an ice coffin and then split his wealth into several parcels hid them and then had a race to retrieve the money Wolfstan married the woman who won the largest amount and she accompanies him on his travels. King alfred and the ice coffinh book This is a fairly short book but formatted like a long picture book along the lines of Sutcliffe and Lee s Black Ships Before Troy Riddell s illustrations are gorgeous and I learned a bit about some history that I d never investigated before I had this author s The Seeing Stone series for years but eventually my students stopped being interested in books set during this era I probably won t purchase but it was an interesting read Hardcover ARC from Edelweiss Hardcover
| King Alfred and the Ice Coffin By Kevin Crossley-Holland |
| 1536238805 |
| 9781536238808 |
| English |
| 88 |
| Hardcover |
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