Marcia Williams is a successful author and illustrator and, with her distinctive cartoon-strip style, has now illustrated and retold many literary classics for children, including The Iliad and the Odyssey (9781406303483), Greek Myths (9781406303476) and Mr William Shakespeare's Plays (9780744569469). Marcia lives in Barnes, London.
Action-packed... Lively pictures – dazzling with brilliant colours
and shading ... a feast for the eye.
*Junior Education*
I don't often use the word 'brilliant' but it's tumbling off the
end of my quill at the moment like an acorn from a Greenwood
bough.
*The School Librarian*
Action-packed... Lively pictures - dazzling with brilliant colours
and shading ... a feast for the eye. * Junior Education *
I don't often use the word 'brilliant' but it's tumbling off the
end of my quill at the moment like an acorn from a Greenwood bough.
* The School Librarian *
Gr 3-5‘Williams has retold Robin Hood's adventures in a comic-strip format. Basic plot elements are consistent with the well-known versions of the tales. There are up to two-dozen panels per double-page spread; each one has a line or two of text below it along with humorous asides and dialogue written within the framed pictures. This makes the reading choppy and abrupt, and gives the impression that the text was written to go with the pictures instead of the other way around. The print is quite small and the vocabulary is challenging. Williams's line and watercolor cartoons are done mostly in yellows and greens and are bright, busy, and colorful. They include some gross details for kids who look for that sort of thing. There are many better versions of Robin Hood available.‘JoAnn Rees, Sunnyvale Public Library, CA
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