The Canterbury Tales

9 best books like The Canterbury Tales (Geraldine McCaughrean): Aesop's Fables, King Lear, The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Mythology: An A-Z Guide to the Myths and Legends of the Ancient World, Castle Diary: The Journal of Tobias Burgess, The Canterbury Tales: A Selection, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings, How the Grinch stole Christmas! And other stories, Pygmalion & My Fair Lady

Aesop's Fables

Author	Aesop
ISBN	0192840509

Aesop's Fables or Aesopica refers to a collection of fables credited to Aesop (620-560 BC), a slave and story-teller who lived in Ancient Greece. Aesop's Fables have become a blanket term for collections of brief fables, usually involving anthropomorphic animals. Many stories included in Aesop's...

King Lear

Author	Gareth Hinds
ISBN	1893131068

This is the most successful adaptation of Shakespeare to the graphic medium that I have read. Wisely, Hinds keeps large parts of the original dialog so the poetry and the passion of the play are undiluted. In supplementary notes at the end of the text he explains his choices.

To the text he has...

The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Mythology: An A-Z Guide to the Myths and Legends of the Ancient World

Author	Arthur Cotterell
ISBN	0681617349

The book is oversize and has over 1,000 entries over hundreds of pages. It's bulky, but it's lavishly illustrated which makes the full size worthwhile, if you're into those kinds of things.

I think the Goodreads summary can give as good a feel as anything for this book: "An authoritative A to...

Castle Diary: The Journal of Tobias Burgess

Author	Richard Platt
ISBN	0763621641

"Not many, if any, children’s books on the Middle Ages and castles contain the wealth of information found in this fresh, appealing offering." - SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL (starred review)

What was it really like to live in a castle? Step back to the Middle Ages with Castle Diary: The Journal...

The Canterbury Tales: A Selection

Author	Geoffrey Chaucer
ISBN	0140622071

Lively, absorbing, often outrageously funny, Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" is a work of genius, an undisputed classic that has held a special appeal for each generation of readers. "The Canterbury Tales" gather twenty-nine of literature's most enduring (and endearing) characters in a vivid...

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Author	Michael Morpurgo
ISBN	0763625191

A witty Arthurian tale receives a wondrous translation by England's Children's Laureate and an award-winning artist.

Think yourself back in years, my friends. . . .

It's New Year's Eve in Camelot, where King Arthur, Queen Guinevere, and all their good Knights wait breathlessly...

Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings

Author

Jonathan Swift

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Imagine the greatest adventure of all time....
Rediscover the immortal story of Lemuel Gulliver and his fantastic voyage. Join him on his journey to the land of the six-inch-high Lilliputians...and...

How the Grinch stole Christmas! And other stories

Author	Dr. Seuss
ISBN	0007258615

Join in the festive entertainment with the disgruntled Grinch and his attempts to steal Christmas. Bursting with frolicking fun, this collection of stories is a must-have for every Dr. Seuss fan at Christmas time. With his unique combination of hilarous stories, crazy illustrations and riotous...

Pygmalion & My Fair Lady

Author	George Bernard Shaw
ISBN	0451530098

The ancient Greeks tell the legend of the sculptor Pygmalion, who created a statue of a woman of such surpassing beauty that he fell in love with his own creation. Then, Aphrodite, taking pity on this man whose love could not reach beyond the barrier of stone, brought the statue to life and gave her to Pygmalion...