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Synopsis
In this splendid retelling of the legend of King Arthur, James Riordan captures the magical and mysterious kingdom of Camelot. The magician Merlin, the sword Excalibur, the Lady of the Lake, the beautiful Guinevere, the knights of the Round Table, Lancelot, the Green Knight, and all of the other characters from Camelot spring to life in Victor Ambrus's colorful recreations of the lost world of King Arthur. Beginning when the evil Vortigern poisons his father, The Story of King Arthur follows young Arthur's escape in the arms of the magician Merlin, his education as a knight, and coronation as king after he pulls the sword from the stone, and his reign over Camelot amongst the Knights of the Round Table.
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About the Author
James Riordan's first novel, Sweet Clarinet, was shortlisted for the Whitbread Children's Novel Award in 1998.
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Grade 3-6-Riordan opens his Arthurian cycle with a confusing but exciting dream sequence and ends it with Arthur's second coming in some nebulous time "to restore glory to this once-great land." The tales in between tell of the dragons under Vortigern's castle, the sword in the stone, Excalibur, the Green Knight, Guinevere and Lancelot, Morgana and Mordred, war, death, and Avalon. The stories read well but don't always work together as the author forces the focus on Arthur. He makes Arthur the young seer at Vortigern's castle, and with such foresight, how could he marry Guinevere or leave the kingdom in Mordred's hands? Furthermore, in this adventure, Arthur announces he will be king, which takes some of the punch out of the sword in the stone episode. A reference to "football" is jarring and about five centuries too early. Riordan ignores the fact that Mordred is Arthur's misbegotten son. He gives Gawain's adventure with the Green Knight to Arthur, leaving in the knight's wife's attempted seduction of the king. Notes defending his choices cite Nennius's Historia Brittonum as his source for the dragon story, but Nennius called the boy-seer Ambrosius. Arthur appears later in that history. Even so, Riordan can write and Ambrus's dynamic ink-and-wash paintings and black-and-white illustrations bring the action to life. This is an Arthur to browse, enjoy, and take with a grain of salt.
Helen Gregory, Grosse Pointe Public Library, MI
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0192741764
- ISBN 13 9780192741769
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages96
- IllustratorAmbrus Victor G.
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