The Seeing Stone - Kevin Crossley-Holland
The Seeing Stone - Kevin Crossley-Holland The year is 1199, the place the Welsh Marches. In 100 short chapters that brilliantly evoke life in a medieval manor, stories of the boy King Arthur begin to…
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The Seeing Stone - Kevin Crossley-Holland
The year is 1199, the place the Welsh Marches. 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. ?? Young Arthur de Caldicot is given a shining stone in which his legendary namesake is revealed.
Deep scholarship, high imagination, and great gifts of storytelling have gone into this; I was spellbound.? as bright and as vivid as the pictures in a Book of Hours. Philip Pullman, The Guardian ?instantly evokes T H White?s The Once and Future King in blending the pastoral idyll of a medieval manor with the myths of King Arthur.
There the similarity ends ? this is truly a crossover book, settling in the interesting space between children?s and adult fiction.? The Times