Geraldine McCaughrean es una maestra narradora cuya prolífica obra incluye fascinantes relecturas de cuentos clásicos, mitos y leyendas de todo el mundo. Su habilidad para dar vida a narrativas antiguas y cuentos populares para lectores contemporáneos es notable. Si bien es ampliamente reconocida por sus libros infantiles, posee un talento único para reinterpretar historias queridas para nuevas generaciones. El trabajo de McCaughrean explora constantemente temas universales con una perspectiva fresca y atractiva.
El Cid- Don Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar- es el héroe histórico más importante de la literatura de la Edad Media española. El Cantar del Cid tiene tres partes - Cantar del destierro, de las bodas de las hijas del Cid y de la afrenta de Corpes. El Cid es desterrado injustamente, tiene que dejar su casa y su familia, y con unos pocos de los suyos se dirige a tierras de moros...
"Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic tale of the regenerative power of nature is brilliantly retold by multi-award-winning author Geraldine McCaughrean. Ten-year-old Mary who, after the death of her parents, comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors where she discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden"--Publisher's description
Robert Fagles's stunning modern-verse translation-available at last in our black-spine classics line A Penguin Classic The Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey through life. In the myths and legends that are retold here, renowned translator Robert Fagles has captured the energy and poetry of Homer's original in a bold, contemporary idiom and given us an Odyssey to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery. This is an Odyssey to delight both the classicist and the general reader, and to captivate a new generation of Homer's students. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
The adventures of the three Darling children in Never-Never Land with Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up.
A retelling of popular Greek myths, including Pandora's box, King Midas, and the Wooden Horse. Suggested level : primary, intermediate.
The Royal Theatre has seen better days. But then so have the ghosts who live there. Newly arrived in her favourite seaside town and its beautiful theatre, Gracie is quickly making friends. But the old theatre is under threat. Will Gracie and her friends be able to save their home, or is the curtain set to fall on their very last performance?
Rebels and Royals includes stories about King Canute, Macbeth, Hereward the Wake, Lady Godiva, the murder of Thomas a Becket, Richard II and Blondel, King John's lost treasure, Robert the Bruce and the Spider, and the Black Prince.. Black-and-white versions of Richard Brassey's exciting illustrations make this an extremely attractive and accessible book.
These stories from Geraldine McCaughrean's larger work 100 Great Stories from British History are about Stevenson's Rocket, Grace Darling, Dr Barnardo, the Titanic, women's suffrage, the Jarrow Marchers, Dunkirk, and much more.
King Canute, Lady Godiva, Guy Fawkes, Bonnie Prince Charlie, Grace Darling and other famous names from 3000 years of history live again in these 100 tragic, comic, stirring tales of adventure, folly and wickedness. These stories, many of them virtually forgotten, are Britain's heritage, told and illustrated with such verve and colour that they are the perfect way to give present-day children a sense of the excitement of history.
Nathan loves pirates - his days are spent dreaming about them and wondering what it would be like to be one. Anything to brighten up his grey and dreary existence. So when Tamo White, the son of a real-life pirate, suggests that Nathan go home with him to Madagascar, it is too good a chance to miss. There's just one problem . . . Nathan's sister, Maud. He can't leave her behind but will she really be able to survive in a strange land full of pirates? You never know - perhaps she'll adapt better than Nathan, or even she herself, could ever have imagined . . . Plundering Paradise will whisk you away to a distant land and fill your senses with amazing sights, sounds and beautiful colours. You will feel as though you've really visited Madagascar and have lived among the pirates and the islanders.
