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Arthur: The Seeing Stone
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The Seeing Stone, or Arthur: The Seeing Stone, is a historical novel for children or young adults, written by

Guardian Prize and Tir na n-Og Award.[3][4][5]

The trilogy is a contemporary retelling of Arthurian legend, told by Arthur de Caldicot as a first-person narrative, where both the primary and secondary settings contribute to the retelling.

Plot

Plot in The Real World

The story begins in the year 1199, just before the beginning of the

betrothal of Arthur and Grace, Sir William's daughter; as Grace is Arthur's half-sister they cannot marry. The novel ends with Arthur accepted as squire to the Lord
of the Middle Marches, Stephen de Holt.

Plot in The Seeing Stone

The Seeing Stone (2006 paperback)

The wizard

parallel universe
, with events in both worlds reflecting each other.

Awards

Crossley-Holland won the annual Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime book award judged by a panel of British children's writers, recognising the best children's book by an author who has not yet won it. Exceptionally the 2001 Prize covered new publications during 21 months 2000–2001 as the schedule was re-aligned with the preceding school year rather than calendar year.[4]

The Welsh Tir na n-Og Award recognised The Seeing Stone as the year's best English-language book for young people with "authentic Welsh background".[5]

The Seeing Stone was bronze runner up for the

2000 Whitbread Awards children's book shortlist. In 2001, it was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature.[6]

Series

The Arthur trilogy comprises The Seeing Stone and two sequels, summing about 1100 pages in their first editions (hardcover).[1]

In the UK, the first book was published in print and audio tape editions. A paperback edition followed in June 2001, and an audio CD in July 2003. There was another paperback edition in September 2006 with new cover art (see image).

Scholastic published the first US edition in 2001 under its

Arthur A. Levine Books.[2] There were Danish, Finnish, German, Spanish, and Norwegian-language translations that year; Catalan, French, and Italian in 2002; Hebrew 2004, Serbian 2006, Romanian 2008.[7][8]

References

  1. ^ a b c Kevin Crossley-Holland at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved 2012-08-07.
  2. ^ a b "The seeing stone" (first U.S. edition). Library of Congress Catalog Record. Retrieved 2012-08-07.
  3. ^ "Guardian children's fiction prize relaunched: Entry details and list of past winners". guardian.co.uk 12 March 2001. Retrieved 2012-08-06.
  4. ^ a b Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2001 (top page). guardian.co.uk. 2012-08-06.
  5. ^ a b "Tir na n-Og awards Past Winners" Archived 10 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine. WBC. Retrieved 2012-08-06.
  6. ^ "2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction Winner and Nominees". Awards Archive. 25 March 2020. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
  7. ^ "Formats and Editions of Arthur: the seeing stone". WorldCat. Retrieved 2012-08-07.
  8. ^ "Formats and Editions of The Seeing stone". WorldCat. Retrieved 2012-08-07.

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