A timeless classic, illustrated by Sydney-based artist Kilmeny Niland. Ages 3+.

Product Description: This is a book of meetings: a mother meets her baby; a man steps into his childhood; an old man encounters Godfather Death; and in the persona of Harald Hardrada, a passionate man wrestles with his fantasies, and north meets south...read more

A collection of very short stories, this work contains stories that are funny, intriguing, and scary. There are stories about ghosts, supermarkets, animals, adventures, and more.

Product Description: Solveig has made it all the way from Norway to the glittering city of Constantinople, where her father is a member of the guard of Empress Zoe. Soon Solveig finds herself caught up in the conflict between the Viking guard and the Islamic people of nearby Sicily...read more

Product Description: Kevin Crossley-Holland is a poet, translator from Anglo-Saxon, librettist, reteller of traditional tale and novelist for children. The Mountains of Norfolk brings together poems from eight previous collections, spare yet sensuous, bearing witness to relationships, history, East Anglia, language and the craft of writing, and the meeting-places of body and spirit...read more

Product Description: In the village of Waterslain in Norfolk, in the 1950s, a fragment from a carved angel's wing is discovered. Maybe the wooden angels that once supported the church roof were not, after all, destroyed centuries ago, but spirited away to safety...read more

This is a translation of the 96 Anglo-Saxon poems from the 11th-century "Exeter Book". Ranging from natural phenomena to animal and bird life, from the Christian concept of creation to prosaic domestic objects, the riddles are full of sharp observation and earthy humour.

Product Description: Gatty is a field girl on a manor. She has never seen busy London or the bright Channel, the snowy Alps of France or the boats in the Venetian sea. She has not sung in the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem or prayed at the manger in Bethlehem -- or been kidnapped, or abandoned, or kissed, or heartbroken...read more

Product Description: A retelling of the four books of the Mabinogion, a collection of Welsh medieval tales about the feats and exploits of legendary Welsh kings and princes.

Introduces each character of the Nativity, giving them each a voice in the narrative, from the shepherds and innkeeper to the donkey that carried Mary into Bethlehem.

The magnificent picaresque story of a medieval pilgrimage.

The definitive collection of British and Irish folk tales.

Product Description: Ten tales that sweep ancient Europe, from Iceland to England and from Greece to Denmark, giving a taste of the myth and folk-tale of them all. This book is bursting with fantastic retellings of old favorites such as "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" and "Arthur the King...read more

This is a volume of six folk tales on the theme of insiders and outsiders.

From the subversive wit of Roald Dahl's wicked retelling of Goldilocks to the magical wordplay of Lewis Carroll's 'Jabberwocky' to the annual Christmas favorite from Clement C. Moore, an illustrated collection of poetry includes comments from today's favorite authors about how these poems touched their lives.

Arthur de Caldicot, on his way to becoming a man, witnesses the horrors of the Fourth Crusade in Venice and Zara, as well as the downfall of King Arthur's court, in his seeing stone.

Drawn from both literary and historical sources, a fascinating tour of the magical world of Camelot vividly brings to life King Arthur and the legends surrounding him, including the sword Excalibur, the quests, the medieval romances, and much more. Reprint.

Surveys the known history of King Arthur, the legends and lore surrounding him, his treatment in literature, and the possible historical background of his associates and stories.

In Venice, 1201. thousands of soldiers are mustering in readiness for what will be the fourth crusade. Young Arthur de Caldicot, squire to Lord Stephen, is among them. It is thrilling to be part of this great gathering; but his eyes are soon open to the realities of warfare and politics.

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Arthur de Caldicot witnesses the horrors of the Fourth Crusade in Venice and Zara, as well as the downfall of King Arthur's court, in his seeing stone.

The Anglo-Saxon World introduces the Anglo-Saxons in their own words -their chronicles, laws and letters, charters and charms, and above all their magnificent poems. Most of the greatest surviving poems are printed here in their entirety: the reader will find the whole of Beowulf, The Battle of Maldon, and the haunting elegiac poems. Here is a word picture of a people who came to these islands as pagans, subscribing to the Germanic heroic code, and yet within 200 years had become Christian to such effect that England was the centre of missionary endeavour and, for a time, the heart of European civilisation. Kevin Crossley-Holland places the poems and prose in context with his skillful interpretation of the Anglo-Saxon world; his translations have been widely acclaimed, and of BeowulfCharles Causley has written `the poem has at last found its translator'. The many illustrations draw on the splendours of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts and jewellery and the wealth of archaeological finds.