Puffin Classics: The Odyssey x 6 Award-winning author Pack by Geraldine McCaughrean (author)

The epic Greek saga of journeying and homecoming, retold by a brilliant children’s author. After ten years of war, Odysseus finally turns his back on Troy and sets sail for home. But this is no short hop on the ferry: his voyage back to Icatha will take him another ten years! On the way, he faces terrible dangers: Polyphemus the greedy one-eyed giant, and Scylla the six-headed sea monster. But when he (oops) upsets the gods themselves, will he ever make it back to his wife and child?

Homer’s epic story brilliantly retold by a classic author

Geraldine McCaughrean’s books include The Kite Rider

She won the 2018 Carnegie Medal for Where the World Ends

A supremely child-friendly version full of danger and drama

Bursting with battles, heroic deeds and horrible monsters

Supplied as a pack of six copies.

Product Details

Catalogue number

8546 in Education Catalogue 2024/25

Format

Paperback

Date published

May 5th, 2016

Condition

New

In this pack

Puffin Classics: The Odyssey

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Author/Illustrator

Geraldine McCaughrean

Geraldine McCaughrean was born and educated in Enfield, North London, the third and youngest child of a fireman and a teacher. She attended Christ Church College of Education but instead of teaching chose to work for a magazine publishing house. Her favourite assignments included the best-selling children’s partworks Storyteller and Little Storyteller. Only in 1988 did she become a full-time writer. Since then, Geraldine has established herself as one of the most exciting children’s writer’s today.

She often visits nearby schools to talk about being a writer and play story-making games, and, of course, to find out what the really important people – the readers – are thinking. Read more