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One Thousand and One Arabian Nights

One Thousand and One Arabian Nights( )
Author: McCaughrean, Geraldine
Illustrator: Lavis, Stephen
Series title:Oxford Illustrated Classics Ser.
ISBN:978-0-19-274530-9
Publication Date:Sep 1982
Publisher:Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $49.95
Book Description:

A completely new version of the Arabian Nights by Carnegie Award winning author, Geraldine McCaughrean. Written in a style that is clear, gripping and poetic, Schahrazad's attemps to stave off execution by telling just one more story retain the flavor of a magic, jinni-ridden, desert world.

Book Details
Pages:260
Detailed Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / General
Juvenile Fiction / Fairy Tales & Folklore / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):16.51 x 24.13 x 2.525 cm
Book Weight:0.81 Kilograms
Author Biography
McCaughrean, Geraldine (Author)
Geraldine McCaughrean was born in Enfield, England on June 6, 1951. She was educated at Christ Church College, Canterbury. She has written more than 160 books and plays for children and adults.

Her writing career includes the retelling of such classics as One Thousand and One Arabian Nights, The Canterbury Tales, and The Bronze Cauldron: Myths and Legends of the World, which is a collection of stories from all over the world. She has received numerous awards including three Whitbread Children's Book Awards for A Little Lower Than the Angels, Gold Dust, and Not the End of the World. She also received the Guardian Prize and Carnegie Medal for A Pack of Lies, the Beefeater Children's Novel Award for Gold Dawn, the Michael L. Printz Award for The White Darkness, and the 2018 Carnegie Medal for children's and YA books for her middle-grade novel Where the World Ends.

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