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Beowulf

Beowulf

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Beowulf, a prince of Geatland, hears of the Danes’ suffering and gains permission from his king to sail to their assistance.

They go on to create a number of varied written outcomes using the text as a starting point including recounts, formal letters, dialogue, descriptions, obituaries and writing their own epic, heroic narrative using various poetic devices. This ancient Anglo-Saxon tale is brilliantly retold by Micheal Morpurgo and has the children enchanted. This retelling captures the rhythm and drama of the original text but in a far more accessible way than some other tellings for children. Foreman's illustrations don't capture the horror or the nobility of the text which is my only criticism.I can imagine being in the great halls of old, headstrong the beasts and dirty tellers or snuggled by a warm danish fire heaing it told as a bedtime story. To touch the lives of children, to witness their listening and reading silence, is reward enough in itself.

My just turned six year old was breathless with excitement as I read about the final battle with the Dragon while my older children had plenty to contribute to our discussion afterwards. I read the first two parts of this retelling of Beowulf to my children earlier in the year, however we only just finished the account of his battle with the death dragon of the deep - a tale I was saving for after we finished The Hobbit.Teachers frequently comment that a child can learn more in a week on the farm than a year in the classroom. We build and maintain all our own systems, but we don’t charge for access, sell user information, or run ads. He travels all over the UK and abroad talking to people of all ages at literary festivals, telling his stories and encouraging them to tell theirs. In this retelling, British Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo breathes new vitality into the oldest English epic, originally written around 1000 A.



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