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Puffin Classics: The OdysseyEnlarge cover

Suitable for 12 - 14 years

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The epic Greek saga of journeying and homecoming, retold by a brilliant children’s author. After ten years of war, Odysseus finally turns his back on Troy and sets sail for home. But this is no short hop on the ferry: his voyage back to Icatha will take him another ten years! On the way, he faces terrible dangers: Polyphemus the greedy one-eyed giant, and Scylla the six-headed sea monster. But when he (oops) upsets the gods themselves, will he ever make it back to his wife and child?

  • Homer’s epic story brilliantly retold by a classic author
  • Geraldine McCaughrean’s books include The Kite Rider
  • She won the 2018 Carnegie Medal for Where the World Ends
  • A supremely child-friendly version full of danger and drama
  • Bursting with battles, heroic deeds and horrible monsters

Product Details

Catalogue number

6485 in Schools Catalogue 2020/21 and 8165 in Secondary Schools Catalogue 2019/20

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780140383096

Publisher

Puffin Classics

Date published

December 31st, 1994

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  • 144 pages
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Author/Illustrator

Geraldine McCaughrean

Geraldine McCaughrean was born and educated in Enfield, North London, the third and youngest child of a fireman and a teacher. She attended Christ Church College of Education but instead of teaching chose to work for a magazine publishing house. Her favourite assignments included the best-selling children’s partworks Storyteller and Little Storyteller. Only in 1988 did she become a full-time writer. Since then, Geraldine has established herself as one of the most exciting children’s writer’s today.

She often visits nearby schools to talk about being a writer and play story-making games, and, of course, to find out what the really important people – the readers – are thinking.

In 2004, the Great Ormond Street Hospital trustees launched the search for an author to write the sequel to J.M. Barrie’s classic children’s novel Peter Pan. Geraldine was chosen from over 200 applicants, and Peter Pan in Scarlet became a bestseller in 2006.

Geraldine and her husband John live in Berkshire and have one teenage daughter, Ailsa. In all, Geraldine has written over 140 books, mostly for children, as well as plays and poetry, and has been published in 25 languages.

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