God Beneath The Sea
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
God Beneath The Sea
By (Author) Leon Garfield
By (author) Edward Blishen
Illustrated by Charles Keeping
Penguin Random House Children's UK
Doubleday Children's Books
15th April 2014
30th January 2014
United Kingdom
Classifications
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Action and adventure stories
823.914
Physical Properties
Paperback
224
Width 153mm, Height 216mm, Spine 16mm
273g
Description
Leon Garfield and Edward Blishen retell some of the most famous Greek myths in this classic of children's literature. Winner of the Carnegie Medal. Leon Garfield and Edward Blishen retells some of the most famous Greek myths in this classic of children's literature. This is the epic history of the Greek Gods told from their violent beginnings to the creation of man.
Reviews
Genuine, imaginative retellings . . . Everything jumps to life in front of your eyes -- Ted Hughes
The best ever rendering of the Greek myths in modern English * The Guardian *
Author Bio
Leon Garfield was born in Brighton in 1921. He was the acclaimed author of more than thirty novels for children and adults including Devil in the Fog, winner of the inaugural Guardian Children's Fiction Prize in 1967, The God Beneath the Sea, winner of the 1970 Carnegie Medal, and John Diamond, winner of the 1980 Whitbread literary award. He was also elected a member of the Royal Society of Literature. He died in 1996.
