Icarus /

Children can dream of what it is like to fly in this reworking of Ovid's classic myth, told through the eyes of servant girl Amara. When Daedalus the inventor and his son Icarus are imprisoned by King Minos, escape looks impossible. But with his ingenious talent Daedalus manages to construct wi...

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Main Authors: Gates, Susan
Group Author: Todd-Stanton, Joe
Published: Oxford University Press,
Publisher Address: Oxford :
Publication Dates: 2016.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: TreeTops greatest stories
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Summary: Children can dream of what it is like to fly in this reworking of Ovid's classic myth, told through the eyes of servant girl Amara. When Daedalus the inventor and his son Icarus are imprisoned by King Minos, escape looks impossible. But with his ingenious talent Daedalus manages to construct wings, enabling the pair to take on the form of birds. Tragedy strikes when Icarus fails to listen to his father's instructions, and the invention that should be his saviour proves to be the opposite. TreeTops Greatest Stories offers children some of the worlds best-loved tales in a collection of timeles
Item Description: "Selected by Michael Morpurgo"--Cover.
Carrier Form: 24 pages : colour illustrations ; 20 cm.
Audience: Book band: 12 brown.
Oxford level 8.
ISBN: 9780198305866
0198305869
9780198305743
CLC: G624.313
Call Number: G624.313/G259-1