The Lion in the Gateway by Mary Renault Stories in Verse (see also Poetry) for our own hearts to

for our own hearts to thaw and for our imaginations to be steeped in the waters of resurrection

"Having previously read and very much enjoyed Walmsley and Westall's best-selling first book Forest School Adventures

richly illustrated chronicle stirs renewed appreciation for human empathy

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Young People's Poet Laureate emeritus

The Lion in the Gateway by Mary Renault Stories in Verse (see also Poetry) for our own hearts toSubtitled, The Heroic Battles of the Greeks and Persians at Marathon, Salamis, and Thermopylae, this is a great retelling of those epic ancient battles which shaped the course of Western Civilization. All the great characters are there: Darius and Xerxes, the Persian Kings; the Greeks Themistocles, Alcibiades, and the Spartan for whom the book is named, Leonides, and many others. The book begins with the historical roots of the people of Ancient