Crossley-Holland--the widely acclaimed translator of Old English texts--introduces the Anglo-Saxons through their chronicles, laws, letters, charters, and poetry, with many of ...

This collection is a celebration of diversity. There are tales from Asiaand India, Central and South America, North America and the Pacific. Throughmarvellous stories of ...

A collection of tales from Europe, the Near and Middle East and Africa.

The longest of the stories in this book is short, and the shortest is just one sentence long. Which means there are lots of stories : a whole bookful to make you think, laugh ...

In late twelfth-century England, the thirteen-year-old Arthur goes to begin his new life as squire to Lord Stephen at Holt, where crusaders ready themselves.

Here are thirty-two classic myths that bring the Viking world vividly to life. The mythic legacy of the Scandinavians includes a cycle of stories filled with magnificent images ...

Introduces the characters of the nativity story and gives each one a voice in the narrative including Mary, a sympathetic innkeeper, an ox and a donkey, wandering shepherds ...