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The Seeing Stone by Kevin Crossley-Holland. 342 p. Arthur A. Levine Books/ Scholastic, 2001. 9780439263263. (Own.)
We'll conclude our #tbt theme about King Arthur this week with The Seeing Stone by Kevin Crossley-Holland. This is a complicated reworking of the legend. It is told from the first-person viewpoint of Arthur de Caldicot, a wealthy teen who is eager to become a knight. He is given a piece of obsidian by his father's friend, Merlin. Arthur sees another world and another Arthur in the stone. Who is this Arthur whose life closely mirrors his own? Is this Arthur's future? The past? Or are there other universes?
The Seeing Stone was published in the UK in 2000, where it won The Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. It was published in the US in 2001 and is the first book of a trilogy.
This collection of #tbts is just a few of my favorite King Arthur retellings. There are many more I've read as well as a heap of retellings I haven't yet gotten to.
This collection of #tbts is just a few of my favorite King Arthur retellings. There are many more I've read as well as a heap of retellings I haven't yet gotten to.
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