Arthur: The Seeing Stone : Book 1

Medieval life meets Arthurian magic in a novel that transcends boundaries of time and age, appealing to children of 9+ and older readers alike. The winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the Smarties Prize bronze award in 2001, this timeless novel is stunningly reissued for a new generation. The year is 1199, the place the Welsh Marches.

Young Arthur de Caldicot is given a magical shining stone in which his legendary namesake is revealed. In 100 short chapters that brilliantly evoke life in a medieval manor, stories of the boy King Arthur begin to echo - and anticipate - the secrets and mysteries that emerge in his own life . .

. "As bright and as vivid as the pictures in a Book of Hours. Deep scholarship, high imagination, and great gifts of storytelling have gone into this; I was spellbound." - Philip Pullman, The Guardian

Viata medievala intalneste magia arturiana intr-un roman care transcende granitele timpului si varstei, atragand atat copiii de peste 9 ani. Castigator al premiului Guardian Children's Fiction Prize si al premiului de bronz Smarties Prize in 2001, acest roman atemporal este reeditat intr-un mod uimitor pentru o noua generatie.