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Beowulf: A Verse Translation With Young Readers In Mind

Beowulf: A Verse Translation With Young Readers In Mind

Gray, Joshua
Yates, Sean

Paperback

General Juvenile Fiction

ISBN10: 0985175427
ISBN13: 9780985175429
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Mar 2 2012
Pages: 32
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.08 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
(Softcover) This adaptation of the Beowulf epic, written for a younger audience, preserves the Anglo-Saxon verse feel of the original text. Illustrations by Sean Yates enhance the reader's experience. Joshua Gray's poetic re-telling of the Beowulf epic as a tale for children gets to the essence of the action with a use of modern English which is accessible and clear for young minds, listening while busily building their own image-worlds... I have the sense that this new text may well encourage very young listeners, years later (after their bedtime stories are a distant memory), to recall this tale with pleasure and to discover a vibrant curiosity to know more about the doings of Hrothgar, Grendel and Beowulf. -- Benjamin Bagby, Performer of Beowulf Gray captures both the fearsomeness of the poem's monsters and the artful alliteration of its Anglo-Saxon origins...Hook the kids with this version, and hope that they will return to the longer poem in later years. -- Tod Linafelt, Georgetown University

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