The Resource Chaucer's Canterbury tales, retold and illustrated by Marcia Williams
Chaucer's Canterbury tales, retold and illustrated by Marcia Williams
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Resource Information
The item Chaucer's Canterbury tales, retold and illustrated by Marcia Williams represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham Libraries.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- Marcia Williams retells Chaucer's popular tales in comic-strip style. As the pilgrims each tell their tales in turn, discover what happened when old John the carpenter took a young and flirtatious wife, how the students gave the thieving miller his come-uppance, what all women desire, and more.
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Chaucer's Canterbury tales
- Title
- Chaucer's Canterbury tales
- Statement of responsibility
- retold and illustrated by Marcia Williams
- Subject
-
- Children's / Teenage fiction & true stories
- Children's / Teenage fiction: Classic fiction
- Children's / Teenage fiction: General fiction
- Children's / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction
- Children's / Teenage fiction: Traditional stories
- Children's stories, English
- Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages -- England | Canterbury -- Comic books, strips, etc. | Juvenile fiction
- Fiction 5+
- General
- Graphic novels
- Interest age: from c 7 years
- Picture Books for Older Readers
- Picture storybooks
- Short stories
- American / British style comic books & graphic novels
- c 500 CE to c 1000 CE
- c 1000 CE to c 1500
- Genre
-
- American / British style comic books & graphic novels
- Children's / Teenage fiction: Classic fiction
- Children's / Teenage fiction: General fiction
- Children's / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction
- Children's / Teenage fiction: Traditional stories
- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Interest age: from c 7 years
- Juvenile fiction
- Picture storybooks
- c 1000 CE to c 1500
- c 500 CE to c 1000 CE
- Children's / Teenage fiction & true stories
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Marcia Williams retells Chaucer's popular tales in comic-strip style. As the pilgrims each tell their tales in turn, discover what happened when old John the carpenter took a young and flirtatious wife, how the students gave the thieving miller his come-uppance, what all women desire, and more.
- Cataloging source
- StDuBDS
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1945-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Williams, Marcia
- Dewey number
- 741.5941
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- short stories
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
- -1400
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Chaucer, Geoffrey
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
- Graphic novels
- Children's stories, English
- Fiction 5+
- General
- Picture Books for Older Readers
- Short stories
- Summary expansion
- A selection of well-loved tales from Chaucer's literary masterpiece retold in humorous comic-strip style. Travel back to Medieval England and join Chaucer and his band of Canterbury pilgrims in this wonderful introduction to one of Britain's greatest literary legacies. These nine well-loved tales, from a host of colourful characters - the Knight, the Miller, the Reeve, the Wife of Bath, the Summoner, the Clerk, the Franklin, the Pardoner and the Nun's Priest - are brought to life with Marcia Williams' trademark witty, comic-strip art, allowing this classic text to be enjoyed by all ages
- Target audience
- juvenile
- Label
- Chaucer's Canterbury tales, retold and illustrated by Marcia Williams
- Note
- Originally published: 2007
- Control code
- BDZ0007945508
- Dimensions
- 32 cm.
- Extent
- 45 p.
- Isbn
- 9781406305623
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Other physical details
- chiefly col. ill.
- Label
- Chaucer's Canterbury tales, retold and illustrated by Marcia Williams
- Note
- Originally published: 2007
- Control code
- BDZ0007945508
- Dimensions
- 32 cm.
- Extent
- 45 p.
- Isbn
- 9781406305623
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Other physical details
- chiefly col. ill.
Subject
- Children's / Teenage fiction & true stories
- Children's / Teenage fiction: Classic fiction
- Children's / Teenage fiction: General fiction
- Children's / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction
- Children's / Teenage fiction: Traditional stories
- Children's stories, English
- Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages -- England | Canterbury -- Comic books, strips, etc. | Juvenile fiction
- Fiction 5+
- General
- Graphic novels
- Interest age: from c 7 years
- Picture Books for Older Readers
- Picture storybooks
- Short stories
- American / British style comic books & graphic novels
- c 500 CE to c 1000 CE
- c 1000 CE to c 1500
Genre
- American / British style comic books & graphic novels
- Children's / Teenage fiction: Classic fiction
- Children's / Teenage fiction: General fiction
- Children's / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction
- Children's / Teenage fiction: Traditional stories
- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Interest age: from c 7 years
- Juvenile fiction
- Picture storybooks
- c 1000 CE to c 1500
- c 500 CE to c 1000 CE
- Children's / Teenage fiction & true stories
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