In Search of a Homeland: The Story of the “Aeneid” (Hardback)
Author: Lively, Penelope
Reading Age: 10 to 11 Fifth Class, 13+ Teenage YA
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Illustrator: n/a
ISBN-13: 9780711217287
Number of pages: 128
Book Description
Aeneas flees from the sacked city of Troy, entrusted by his goddess-mother Venus with a daunting mission: to find a new homeland for his people. Over 2000 years after Virgil... Read more
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Book Description
Aeneas flees from the sacked city of Troy, entrusted by his goddess-mother Venus with a daunting mission: to find a new homeland for his people. Over 2000 years after Virgil wrote his epic The Aeneid, Penelope Lively retells Aeneas’ story with pace poignancy and drama, while Ian Andrew’s illustrations bring the characters beautifully to life. Together they create an introduction to The Aeneid which takes its place alongside Rosemary Sutcliff’s classic retellings of Homer’s The Iliad and The Odyssey. The book includes a Latin pronunciation guide and a map of Aeneas’ long, arduous, death-defying journey.
Review
… A good resource for teachers (Books for Keeps )
The Independent, 6th April 2002
‘…a splendid retelling…Lively’s text is simple but uncompromising’
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