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Original Title:	The Seeing Stone
ISBN:	0752844296 (ISBN13: 9780752844299)
Edition Language:	English URL http://www.kevincrossley-holland.com/fiction.html
Series:	Arthur Trilogy #1
Literary Awards:	Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Children's Literature (2005), Guardian Children's Fiction Prize (2001)

The Seeing Stone (Arthur Trilogy #1)

Kevin Crossley-Holland

Paperback | Pages: 338 pages

Rating: 3.66 | 4761 Users | 308 Reviews

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Title	:	The Seeing Stone (Arthur Trilogy #1)
Author	:	Kevin Crossley-Holland
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	13th reprint
Pages	:	Pages: 338 pages
Published	:	2004 by Orion Children's Books (first published 2000)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Historical. Historical Fiction. Young Adult. Mythology. Arthurian. Fiction

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The year is 1199, the place the Welsh Marches. Young Arthur de Caldicot practises his tilting and archery, learns to be a dutiful page to his father, and waits impatiently to grow up and become a knight. One day his father's friend Merlin gives him a shining black stone. When Arthur starts to see stories in the stone, his life quickly becomes entwined with that of his namesake, the boy who pulls the sword from the stone.

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I personally like books set in the past, so when I saw the cover and read the blurb at the back, I knew this book would be interesting and full of unexpected things going to happen along the way.When I read the first 30 chapters, I didn't know where this was going. First there was the bullfight, then about three jumpers who broke into the manor, then a seeing stone. I don't know how all these related with each other.Throughout the book, I realized that the book was written in a journal format,

Read this one on the train to New York and back. It's Ok. My knowledge of the Legend of King Arthur was rusty since watching Disney's The Sword in the Stone about 30 years ago. The chapters are very short and there is a lot of unnecessary dialogue, not to mention I could tell where the story was going 300 pages from the end. There were still scenes that left images in my mind, and that's what a good author does, after all. I might read the second and third books in the trilogy. But for my my

A captivating and imaginative story that weaves the life of a 13 year old boy in England, near the Welsh border in 1199 and 1200. Arthur of Caldicot, son of Sir John and brother of Serle and Sian,longs to be a squire and is given an obsidian stone by the mysterious friend of his father Merlin. In this stone, he sees the narrative unfold of the legendary young King Arthur, of centuries before. His life so parallels the young Arthur in may ways that we wonder what this Arthur's future will be.

I think this book started VERY boring but it got better as I read on. It's not my favourite book in the world but it's not my least favourite either. I like how Kevin tied the visions into the story with similar events until at the end... I won't say because you might want to read the book!

This book is exceedingly slow and simple. It follows the story of a boy named Arthur who may or may not be destined to be a king. The ending really implies you need to read the next book to see what happens to Arthur, with no real overarching conflict in the first novel. This book as a standalone is more about the daily life of the son of a lord in the year 1199 as told from the perspective of a boy named Arthur. It isn't, after all, about a boy who is in fact a young King Arthur - at least not

I started off not knowing if I was going to like this book or not. I had not read a childrens book for a while and knowing pretty much what happens to young Arthur (doesnt everyone?) I wasnt about to be bowled over in surprise.What happened was that as I read I began to enjoy the story for what it is a story for children AND adults, one where the author has used his imagination and obvious knowledge of Mediaeval life to expand on the basic Arthur tale and make it a much more interesting book.I

A young Arthur living at the end of the twelfth century in England is given an obsidian stone by his father's friend, Merlin. In the stone, he sees the life of another, older Arthur, and their two lives are strangely similar.Meh. I couldn't get into this one much, although in general it was an okay read. I don't see the point of the link between the two Arthurs and that irritated me and spoiled the book for me a bit.