The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Exploring the most profound subjects with a light yet powerful touch, his books tell unforgettable stories in simple, direct words. Beowulf’s terrifying quest to destroy Grendel, the foul fiend, a hideous sea-hag and a monstrous fire-dragon is the oldest surviving epic in British literature. He has written more than 100 books and has won the Smarties Prize, the Whitbread Award, and most recently the Blue Peter Book Award for PRIVATE PEACEFUL.

They go on to create a number of varied written outcomes using the text as a starting point including recounts, formal letters, dialogue, descriptions, obituaries and writing their own epic, heroic narrative using various poetic devices.

In fifth-century Denmark, a murderous monster stalks the night, and only the great prince of the Geats has the strength and courage to defeat him. By submitting a review you grant us the right to display and use it in any way; please read our General Legal Notices for full details. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

Does the book contain anything that teachers would wish to know about before recommending in class (strong language, sensitive topics etc. He spends about half his life mucking out sheds with the children, feeding sheep or milking cows; the other half he spends dreaming up and writing stories.These branches are designed to support home learners to access literature-based learning using a selection of books we love from Writing Roots. Artfully retold and magnificently illustrated, this companion volume to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is made instantly accessible to children by a formidable children's book partnership.