Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Softcover

Morpurgo, Sir Michael

 
9781844287307: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Synopsis

A dazzling retelling of one of the greatest Arthurian legends.

A magical story from the tales of the Knights of the Round Table. Here are thrills and enchantment, chivalry and courage, a challenge and a quest. Its hero is the greatest of all King Arthur s knights, Sir Gawain. His adversary is the fearsome Green Knight, who rides into Camelot one New Year s Eve with a challenge that strikes dread into Arthur s court.

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About the Authors

Sir Michael Morpurgo is one of the greatest storytellers for children writing today and has written more than one hundred books, the most famous of which, War Horse, has been adapted for stage and screen to internatonal acclaim. He has won numerous major literary awards, including the Nestlé Children’s Book Prize and the Whitbread Children’s Book Award, and was Children’s Laureate 2003–2005. In 2006 he was made an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in recognition of his services to literature, and in 2018 he was made a Knight Bachelor. Michael now lives on a farm in Devon, and describes himself as “oldish, married with three children, and a grandfather six times over.”

One of the most outstanding creators of children’s picture books today, Michael Foreman has won the Kate Greenaway award three times and two Nestle Smarties prizes.

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