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Canterbury Tales


Usborne Classics Retold

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Published: 2014

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Great for age 11-18 years

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An ill-matched band of strangers are setting off on a pilgrimage to Canterbury. To amuse themselves along the way, they hold a storytelling competition. But the tales soon turn from ripping yarns to slanging matches...Chaucer's outrageous comic tales delightfully retold for today's young readers.

 

This book is part of a book series called Usborne Classics Retold .

This book is aimed at children in secondary school.

This book was published 2014 by Usborne Publishing Ltd .

Sarah Courtauld lives in London and writes and illustrates children's books. Her favourite writers for children are Tove Jansson, Andy Stanton, Roald Dahl, John Masefield, Cressida Cowell and Lemony Snicket, although her all time favourite children's book is The Princess Bride.

This book is in the following series:

Usborne Classics Retold
These simplified and shortened retellings make great literary classics accessible. Each remains faithful to the original text in the treatment of the story.

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