Medieval life meets Arthurian magic in a novel that transcends boundaries of time & age appealing to children of 9 & older readers alike The winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize & 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
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- the secrets & mysteries that emerge in his own life As bright & as vivid as the pictures in a Book of Hours Deep scholarship high imagination & great gifts of storytelling have gone into this; I was spellbound
- Philip Pullman The Guardian