Beowulf A Hero's Tale Retold
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When sleep was at its deepest, night at its blackest, up from the mist-filled marsh came Grendel stalking...Thus begins the battle between good and evil, for lying in wait and anxious to challenge the ogre Grendel is a young man strong-willed and fire-hearted. This man is Beowulf, whose heroic dragon-slaying deeds were sung in the courts of Anglo-Saxon England more than a thousand years ago. Limiting himself to only Anglo-Saxon words still used in English today, Rumford tells the story for today's child. Rumford also illustrated the book in pen and ink, finished with watercolor, inspired by Arthur Rackham and Edmond Dulac's artistic styles. The illumination was inspired by the Anglo-Saxon and Keltic manuscripts of the first millennium.
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