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|reviewer=John Lloyd
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|pages=160
|publisher=Macmillan Children's Books
|date=May 2010
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So the tales are commendable, but they’d be nothing without a good telling, and we get that. The humour is good, the clarity is commendable. I think a more traditional book of legends, such as the ones I grew up with, would perhaps strive for a greater variety in the telling, however – a first-person reportage one, or some such.
But the twee and the Reithian aspects of books such as mine also suffered from have been successfully banished, and we’re left with an entertaining and educational book of the old that is new for the young. I must thank the kind people at Macmillan for my review copy. We also have a review of [[Legends: Battles and Quests by Anthony Horowitz]].
For a book with only one legend in for this audience, you still might struggle to best [[Beowulf by Michael Morpurgo]]. It’s one of our [[Top Ten Retellings of Myths, Legends and Fairy Tales]].
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