The seeing stone, Kevin Crossley-Holland
Type
Label
The seeing stone, Kevin Crossley-Holland
Language
eng
Form of composition
not applicable
Format of music
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Literary text for sound recordings
fiction
Main title
The seeing stone
Music parts
not applicable
Oclc number
436034214
Responsibility statement
Kevin Crossley-Holland
Series statement
Arthur trilogy, bk. 1
Summary
In late twelfth-century England, a thirteen-year-old boy named Arthur recounts how Merlin gives him a magical seeing stone which shows him images of the legendary King Arthur, the events of whose life seem to have many parallels to his own
Table Of Contents
Arthur and Merlin -- Terrible secret -- Into the bullring -- My black king finger -- Duty -- Coeur De Lion -- My tailbone -- Little Luke and pigeon pie -- Tumber hill -- Sleeping king -- Jack words -- Fever -- Knowing and understanding -- Jumpers and my writing room -- Nine -- Three sorrows, three fears, three joys -- Tempest's teeth -- Just Jack -- Nain in armor -- Obsidian -- Lance and longbow -- Long live the king! -- Messenger's complaint -- Royal brothers -- Ice and fire -- Merlin -- Muffled -- Peddler -- Luke -- Poor stupid -- Seeing stone -- On my own -- Nutshells and good earth -- Desire -- Flyting -- Hallowe'en -- Passion -- Strange saints -- Uther explains -- Schoolmen, scribes, and artists -- Mouthfuls of air -- Foster child -- Crossing places -- Luke's illness -- Pains -- Unfair song -- New bow -- Ice -- Baptism -- My name -- Hooter and worse -- My quest -- Brother -- Between breath and breath -- Hares and angels -- Pots of tears -- Half-dead king -- Lady Alice and my tailbone -- Grace and Tom -- Fifth son -- Goshawk -- Thin ice -- Devil's berries -- Rot and bad blood -- Art of forgetting -- Hot and important -- Gates of paradise -- Words for Luke -- Despair -- Manor court -- Butterflies -- Merlin and the archbishop -- Acorn -- Spelling -- Pope's proclamation -- Nothing's not worth hiding -- Foul stroke -- Not yet -- Archbishop's messenger -- Knight in the yellow dress -- Tanwen's secret -- King John's Christmas present -- Nine gifts -- Sword in the stone -- Splatting and sword-pulling -- Riding to London -- Christmas -- Sir Kay -- Fourth son -- Turning of the century -- Lightly and fiercely -- Whole armor -- King of Britain -- Blood-truths -- Son of Uther -- Blood on the snow -- Unhooded -- At once -- What matters -- Song of the North Star
Target audience
juvenile
Transposition and arrangement
not applicable