Geraldine McCaughrean est une maître conteuse dont la production prolifique comprend des récits captivants de contes classiques, de mythes et de légendes du monde entier. Son talent pour donner vie à des récits anciens et à des contes populaires pour les lecteurs contemporains est remarquable. Bien que largement reconnue pour ses livres pour enfants, elle possède un talent unique pour réinterpréter des histoires appréciées pour de nouvelles générations. Le travail de McCaughrean explore constamment des thèmes universels avec une perspective fraîche et engageante.
"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
Après la guerre de Troie, Ulysse ne retournera pas de sitôt à Ithaque. Héros malmené par les dieux, il erre pendant dix ans de naufrages en catastrophes, jouet de forces qui le dépassent. Il devient ainsi le premier aventurier à explorer les confins du monde pour en rapporter un fabuleux récit. Considérée comme l'un des plus beaux poèmes de l'humanité, l'Odyssée fait partie de ces ouvrages qui ont laissé une empreinte profonde dans la culture occidentale. si bien qu'on peut affirmer, avec Pierre Bergounioux, que "le monde n'est plus le même après qu'on a lu l'Odyssée".
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.
These are the stories of Britain¿s past that children in England, Scotland and Wales used to grow up on. Often discredited, in many cases virtually forgotten, they are nonetheless wonderful tales that will give present-day children a sense of the excitement of history. King Canute, Lady Godiva, Guy Fawkes, Bonnie Prince Charlie, Grace Darling and other famous names live again in these 100 tragic, comic, stirring tales of adventure, folly and wickedness. Spanning nearly three thousand years, and including stories as up-to-date as Live Aid and the Braer Oil Tanker disaster, each story includes a note on what really happened, and there is an index and a list of further reading. This is a unique book with a very wide appeal. It is not a history textbook, simply a collection of stories by a consummate children's writer who has retold in her own inimitable way 100 stories that children will enjoy. Richard Brassey¿s brilliant illustrations on every page bring the characters to life with wit, humour and fascinating period detail.
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.
These stories from Geraldine McCaughrean's larger work 100 Great Stories from British History are about the founding of London, the Glastonbury Thorn, the Romans, Boudicca, King Arthur, Hengist and Horsa, King Alfred, and much more.
