Fall in love with these four classic stories! Carefully retold in clear contemporary language, and presented with beautiful illustrations, these well-loved tales will capture your heart and imagination. Beautiful artwork captures the mood of each story. Specially adapted text makes stories accessible to young readers. This title features attractive cloth covers with ribbon bookmark. It includes author biographies and further reading ideas.
This book is part of a book series called Classics Collection .
There are 48 pages in this book. This book was published 2011 by QED Publishing .
Alexandre Dumas could have been a character from one of his novels. A true romantic, he was the son of Napoleon's famous General Dumas, a prolific writer of over 277 volumes, a revolutionary and a man of tremendous appetites. He was born on July 24, 1802 and died penniless but happy on December 5, 1870, a refugee from his own excesses. Ronne Randall has written and edited dozens of titles, for international publishers. Graham Howells has illustrated many children's books for publishers around the world.
This book contains the following story:
The Three Musketeers
Young, brave and hot-headed, D'Artagnan arrives in Paris determined to become one of the king's elite musketeers. He manages to offend three of the bravest musketeers - Athos, Aramis and Porthos - but the four become firm friends nevertheless. Together they do battle against the English and the glamorous but deadly spy known as Milady.