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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Hardcover)

by Michael Morpurgo (Author), Michael Foreman (Illustrator)
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  • Hardcover: 120 pages
  • Publisher: Walker Books Ltd (1 Nov 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0744586461
  • ISBN-13: 978-0744586466
  • Product Dimensions: 25.2 x 22.2 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 71,126 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Of all the tales of the Knights of the Round Table, the story of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is surely the most magical. Here are thrills and enchantment, chivairy and courage, a challenge and a quest. Its hero is the greatest of all King Arthur's knights, Sir Gawain. His adversary is the fearsome Green Knight, who rides into Camelot one New Year's Eve with a challenge that strikes dread into Arthur's court. For Gawain, it is the start of an extraordinary adventure.

About the Author
Michael Morpurgo has over 90 books to his name, many of which have been adapted for film and television and have won numerous prizes, including both the Whitbread Award and the Children's Book Award. He is the current Children's Laureate. Michael lives in Devon. Michael Foreman is one of the world's leading illustrators. He has won several major awards, including the Kate Greenaway Medal twice (most recently for "War Boy"). Michael lives in London.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Lavish illustrations and borderwork, 1 Mar 2006
This review is from: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Paperback)
Perhaps I should make clear my bias from the start: I love Michael Foreman's illustrations, but here he has outdone himself.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a story set in King Arthur's time. One Christmas a green knight challenges the knights of the round table to a beheading game. Sir Gawain takes up the challenge and lops the green knight's head off. Nonplussed the knight rides away and Gawain must come to him in a year's time to bear the green knight's blow. Certain death, surely.
On his travels to find the green knight, Sir Gawain finds a castle where he is welcome by the castellan and invited to play a game. Both men will exchange their findings of the day. The lord goes out hunting, while back home his wife tries to seduce Sir Gawain. Of course, there is more to this game of hunting and seduction than meets the eye.
Can Gawain remain triumphant?
Foreman's illustrations bring to life the story with great vividness. His watercolours of the lady of the castle are superb and not without a certain erotic charge, a difficult thing as this is essentially a children's book. But Foreman never crosses the line and his pictures remain those of a children's world, albeit with subtle (and very cleanly) undertones.
Morpurgo's re-telling is close to the original in plot and language, with some nice touches (like Gawain following the swans north), and some puzzling ones (the connection between the green band and the order of the garter is more than tenuous).
Quite apart from the illustrations the book is lavishly done with borders of leaves on each page and prominent initials. It has the feel of a medieval manuscript to it.
A must have, if you (or your children) are in any way interested in the knights of the round table.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars a joy to read aloud, 11 April 2008
i am reading this to my 7 year old for a bedtime story, and under pain of death is she to read ahead and deprive me of the joy! the words are beautifully done, to read aloud fabulous. so descriptive. must be my favourite rendition of all times. [enthuse, enthuse] the book looks beautiful as well.
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