Tales from the Mabinogion

ISBN: 9780862438975
Publication Date: 16 January 2015
Publisher: Y Lolfa, Tal-y-bont
Illustrated by Margaret Jones
Adapted/Translated by Gwyn Thomas, Kevin Crossley-Holland
Suitable for age 9-11 or Key Stage 2
Format: Paperback, 296x210 mm, 96 pages
Language: English

Gwyn Thomas and Kevin Crossley-Holland's modern adaptation of the medieval stories of Pwyll, Branwen, Manawydan and Math. Illustrated by Margaret Jones. Reprint; first published in 2006.

The following has been provided by the Publisher:
Author Biography:

Poet and Scholar, Gwyn Thomas, originally comes from Blaenau Ffestiniog, but now lives in Bangor where he was Professor of welsh at the University. He was Wales’ National Poet for 2006/07.

Margaret Jones is an experienced artist and lives in Capel Bangor near Aberystwyth.

Both have cooperated on many books for children, and have won the Tir na n-Og prize on many occasions.

Further Information:

The Mabinogion’s tales were first recorded in written form around seven hundred years ago. They are partly based on early medieval historical events, but may hark back to older iron age traditions.

Now, the four branches of the Mabinogion, a Welsh treasure regarded as some of the great tales of the world can be enjoyed again, because Tales from the Mabinogion a retelling of the tales by National Poet Gwyn Thomas, and illustrated by Margaret Jones, is back in print.