Buy this book on-line MORPURGO**, MICHAEL - as told by: : SIR GAWAIN & THE GREEN KNIGHTLONDON.WALKER BOOKS LTD,2004. ISBN 0744586461.
UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 10 - 1 descending.] FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn and no price -clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial artwork by Michael Foreman,illustrated dw/dj, with b/w lettering to front panel with circular silvered 'Michael Morpurgo Children's Laureate 2003-2005' label; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+ fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original boards with dw/dj design repeated to them and immaculate colour pictorial illustrated endpapers.UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn,12-114pp [paginated] includes Morpurgo's retelling of the classic tale with colour pictorial illustrations by Michael Foreman - in full-colour to part,full and double-pages; plus [unpaginated] double-page colour pictorial illustrated half-title+ title pages,Morpurgo's prologue/preface and a double-page illustration last 2pp.
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.Prepare for thrills and enchantment,chivalry and courage,a challenge and a quest.Our hero is the greatest of all King Arthur's knights,Sir Gawain.The fearsome Green Knight is his adversary,riding 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 that will test his honour and bravery to the very limit.
Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo displays all the skill and art of a master storyteller in his retelling of this classic tale,illustrated with characteristic elan by Michael Foreman.
Michael Foreman,born Pakefield,Suffolk,1938. Studied at Lowestoft School of Art and at the Royal College of Art.Lecturer at St Martin's School of Art (1963-65),the London College of Printing (1967/8),the Royal College of Art (1968 -70) and the Central School of Arts and Crafts (1972).Art Director of Playboy magazine,Chicago (1965) and the King Magazine,London (1966). Painter,etcher,illustrator and writer of children's books.His illustrative work is distinctive: he often works in colour or halftone,creating luminous effects with veils of thinly diluted pigment over delicate pencil outlines; in his etched illustrations,he uses soft ground techniques to achieve subtle tonal graduations.His imagery,ostensibly decorative, humorous or with a sometimes child-like appearance,often has menacing or bizarre overtones.
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