A gripping and insightful story of war from master storyteller Leon Garfield. 'As far as the eye can see, scarlet men are marching... A rich and splendid company, but none more so than the drummer boy.' But a moment later, the sound of Charlie Samson's drum was swallowed in a wild thunder. The glorious scarlet troops had been ambushed. Men were dead and dying all around, and all the beauty was gone. All that was left was himself and his drum, and a few shady nightwalkers -- cowards who came crawling from the ditches and knaves who scoured the dead for wealth.
A gripping and insightful story of war from master storyteller Leon Garfield. 'As far as the eye can see, scarlet men are marching... A ri...
How to introduce children to Shakespeare, not just to the stories behind the plays but to the richness of Shakespeare's language and the depth of his characters: That's the challenge that Leon Garfield, no slouch as a wordsmith himself, sets out to meet in his monumental and utterly absorbing Shakespeare Stories. Here twenty-one of the Bard's plays are refashioned into stories that are true to the wit, the humor, the wisdom, the sublime heights, the terrifying depths, and above all the poetry of their great originals. Throughout, Garfield skillfully weaves in Shakespeare's own...
How to introduce children to Shakespeare, not just to the stories behind the plays but to the richness of Shakespeare's language and the depth of h...
Harris and Bostock are best friends, but they are as different from one another as night and day.When Harris puts his baby sister Adelaide in the words to see if she will be adopted by a fox, little do they realize that they are starting a chain of events that will be remembered in their little seaside town as the Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris.
Harris and Bostock are best friends, but they are as different from one another as night and day.When Harris puts his baby sister Adelaide in the word...