Homer's epic poem, The Iliad, is one of the greatest adventure stories of all time. Rich with arresting imagery and memorable characters, its powerful metaphors still permeate modern culture. This brilliant retelling offers young readers an exciting intro
If it is the author's job to paint word-pictures, few writers have accomplished the task more brilliantly than J.R.R. Tolkien, whose timeless fantasy classics have literally taken readers to another place.And what a place it is! The Middle-earth so graphi
Castles of legend, fantasy and myth brought to vivid life in the delicate yet powerful art of Alan Lee and the evocative prose of David Day.Castles: the very word conjures up magical images of romantic ladies, daring lovers, sieges, bards, feasts, hidden
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Chronicles III: Art & Design shares the design of Academy Award-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug", the second film in the trilogy adapting the enduringly popular masterpiece The
Two hundred years ago two brothers, Jacob and Wilhelm, collected together a large selection of folk and fairy tales and published them as Kinder- und Hausmarchen (Children's and Household Tales). So successful was the first collection of 88 stories that t
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was signed on 10th December 1948. It was compiled after World War Two to declare and protect the rights of all people from all countries. This beautiful collection, published 60 years on, celebrates each declarati
