The award winning author Geraldine McCaughrean has completely retold Chaucer's stories of a group of pilgrims on their way to Canterbury. They are stories of magic and trickery, of animals with blazing eyes and firebrand tails, stories of love and death and the Devil. The paperback is now reissued with a new cover.

 

There are 128 pages in this book. This book was published 1999 by Oxford University Press .

Geoffrey Chaucer , known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages and was the first poet to have been buried in Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey. Victor Ambrus is a well-known illustrator of over 300 children's picture books. Geraldine McCaughrean is the author of The Odyssey and other titles in the acclaimed Oxford Illustrated Classics series.