lynn_k's review against another edition
4.0
This book was great! Perfect for kids who are into mythology and are looking for something a little different. The stories are altered slightly to be age appropriate without completely butchering them. The illustrations are beautiful and I love that it comes with a big map. Maps make everything better.
stargirlcaraway's review
5.0
So great.
Arthurian legend is awesome to me, I just love it. This book is a gorgeous sort of story book that does a great job of telling many of the main stories from Arthurian legend in a brief but highly informative way. I liked the format a lot because it would have 2 pages of brief descriptions of smaller things like Argante or Merlin's prophecies or the Round Table and then the next maybe 10 pages would just be a story like how Arthur got Excalibur or Gawaine and the Green Knight.
The illustrations were gorgeous and so fun to look at and I enjoyed the simplistic storytelling that still managed to be very magical and make me wish the stories were true.
Merlin's own end is as uncertain as his beginning. Some say that he fell in love with a beautiful fairy woman, Nimue, one of the Nine Ladies of the Lake, and that she placed spells around him and kept him in an enchanted place forever. But others tell it differently: that he grew tired of the follies of men and returned to the Golden Wood, where he built a house of glass with seventy doors and windows. There he is still, watching the stars turn across the heavens, and waiting for King Arthur to come again.
I mean that is just plain awesome.
I think this book works as a great introduction to the legend of King Arthur and I'm tempted to buy a copy to keep at home.
Arthurian legend is awesome to me, I just love it. This book is a gorgeous sort of story book that does a great job of telling many of the main stories from Arthurian legend in a brief but highly informative way. I liked the format a lot because it would have 2 pages of brief descriptions of smaller things like Argante or Merlin's prophecies or the Round Table and then the next maybe 10 pages would just be a story like how Arthur got Excalibur or Gawaine and the Green Knight.
The illustrations were gorgeous and so fun to look at and I enjoyed the simplistic storytelling that still managed to be very magical and make me wish the stories were true.
Merlin's own end is as uncertain as his beginning. Some say that he fell in love with a beautiful fairy woman, Nimue, one of the Nine Ladies of the Lake, and that she placed spells around him and kept him in an enchanted place forever. But others tell it differently: that he grew tired of the follies of men and returned to the Golden Wood, where he built a house of glass with seventy doors and windows. There he is still, watching the stars turn across the heavens, and waiting for King Arthur to come again.
I mean that is just plain awesome.
I think this book works as a great introduction to the legend of King Arthur and I'm tempted to buy a copy to keep at home.
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