merlin (legendary character)

Merlin, the son of a Welsh princess, survives a perilous childhood on his way to fulfill his destiny as mentor, advisor, and friend to King Arthur.

Presents three novels by Jane Yolen that depict Merlin in the years before he became a powerful wizard and befriended the future King Arthur of Camelot.

Retells, in graphic novel form, the tale of Arthur Pendragon who, raised in obscurity, draws a legendary sword from a stone and begins the life he was born to lead, guided by the elusive wizard Merlin.

A young boy who has no identity nor memory of his past washes ashore on the coast of Wales and finds his true name after a series of fantastic adventures.

When she joins her father and several others investigating a strange whirlpool and possible sunken treasure ship off the coast of Baja California, thirteen-year-old Kate is drawn into a centuries-old conflict between Merlin and the evil Vagar.

Merlin's fragile home on the isle of Fincayra is threatened by the attack of a mysterious warrior with swords for arms and by the escape of Stangmar from his imprisonment, as Merlin continues to move toward his ultimate destiny.

Merlin grows in wisdom and honor as he prepares for the coming of the Pendragon, Britain's great ruler, Lord of the Summer Kingdom, and Lion of Logres.

Merlin offers twenty-four lessons for aspiring wizards with the admonition that all magic is an act of the imagination; grouped by season, with instruction on genies, divination, magical beasts, fairy gold, spellcraft, astrology, and other topics.

Merlin the wizard helps England's King Uther win the lady he loves and in exchange the king gives Merlin his son to raise and protect to be a great future king.

An illustrated retelling of the story of how young Arthur pulled a sword from a stone and became the King of Britain.