The Whispering Knights (Oxford Bookworms, Green) [Abridged] [Paperback]

Penelope Lively (Author), Jennifer Bassett (Author), Clare West (Author, Editor), Toby Carr (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 11, 1996 | Series: Oxford Bookworms, Green

This series of "Bookworms" offers younger readers the chance to enjoy lively and accessible adaptations of the best classic and modern fiction. Each title is highly illustrated to engage the reader in the world of the book and help with specific vocabulary. Accompanying exercises make all these titles suitable for use in class or at home.

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About the Author

Jennifer Bassett is Series Editor of the Oxford Bookworms Collection, for which she has written original stories One-Way Ticket and The President's Murderer. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press; Abridged edition (July 11, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 019422760X
• ISBN-13: 978-0194227605
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,789,407 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Thirty five years later, it's still a beautiful book, June 25, 2007

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Susan J. Clark (Sydney, NSW Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Whispering Knights (Paperback)

At the ripe old age of 46 I've come across this book, squirreled amongst the group of items I've kept since childhood. I last read it when I was 12, in 1972, when PL had written only one other book. I can understand why this is the only book I chose to keep from my childhood. Beautiful imagery and a powerful use of words that I found fascinating even then. The children seem a little 'old fashioned' now, but the story itself holds firm. My 8 year old son is loving it. I only hope the now fragile and yellow pages will last the distance.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My favourite story, September 13, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Whispering Knights: 2 (Hardcover)

This is a wonderful story of three children, who inadvertantly bring Morgan le Fay back into power. Based in Oxfordshire, it utilises a famous stone circle, the Whispering Knights.

Written in the typical Lively easy to read style, it's a great children's story with a good mix of magic and modern sensibilities. It has long been one of my favourites and still gets a re-read even though I'm 20 years past the demographic.