Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Marcia Williams
Hardcover
(Candlewick, Jan. 9, 2007)
Marcia Williams retells nine favorite Chaucerian tales in her witty, engaging comic-strip style.Step back into the Middle Ages for a boisterous, bawdy storytelling session led by the one and only Chaucer. Marcia Williams uses her signature comic-strip format to animate nine Canterbury classics, including "The Clerk's Tale," "The Miller's Tale," and "The Wife of Bath's Tale." Interspersed with her lively narrative and running side-commentary are bits of dialogue from the original Medieval English text, bringing the essence of Chaucer's colorful humor to modern readers in an engaging way.