Crossley-Holland, Kevin

Retells fifty-five stories chosen to represent all the major tale types.

Tells the story of the hero Beowulf, slayer of the monster Grendel.

Contains twenty-two myths of the Vikings.

A fanciful introduction to numbers and how they impose order on the world around us.

In late twelfth-century England, a thirteen-year-old boy named Arthur recounts how Merlin gives him a magical seeing stone which shows him images of the legendary King Arthur, the events of whose life seem to have many parallels to his own.

Presents the Christmas story from the perspective of those who witnessed it including some of the animals, innkeeper, shepherds, and wisemen.

Gatty is given the chance of a lifetime when she is asked to accompany a family on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, and the journey, though dangerous, quickly changes Gatty's life forever.