BOOK
Big bold Beowulf : (an almost true story) / by Geoff Boxell.
- Date
- 2015.
- By
- Boxell, Geoff, 1947-
- Identifier
- ISBN 9780473332051 Epub, ISBN 9780473332068 Kindle, ISBN 9780473332075 PDF, ISBN 9780473332082 iBook
- Summary
"When South London schoolboy Jamie goes to Wimbledon to photocopy some pictures for his school project on the Old English poem 'Beowulf', he little thinks that his life will never quite be the same again. Deciding to exchange his bus fare home for a hamburger, Jamie somehow ends up in the company of a very weird old man for whom everything seems to have stopped in the time of the Anglo-Saxons. After being thrown out of the hamburger bar for creating a disturbance, the pair heads for Wimbledon Common. In between 'gathering tributes' of what seem to be other people's unattended food and drinks, Grimm, the old man, tells Jamie what he claims to be an eye witness account of the story of Beowulf and the hero's battles with the monster Grendel and Grendel's mother in the damp of a Danish bog. Although Grimm's version is not quite the same as that told in the poem he claims that it is all true, well almost true"--Publisher's website.
- Notes
Story for children.
Archived by the National Library of New Zealand in PDF (ii, 24 pages). Accompanied by JPEG cover image.
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Smashwords edition.
- Source URL
- https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE25189725
- Other Versions
- Print version: Big bold Beowulf
- Related to
- Digital Collection = Kohinga Matihiko 81268192800002836 Alma Collection, Sequel: Boxell, Geoff, 1947- Hard hero Hengest.
- Publisher
- [Kihikihi] : Wendlewulf Productions, 2015.
- Format
- 1 online resource
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