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Saint George and the dragon : a golden legend /

Hodges, Margaret, 1911-2005.

Saint George and the dragon : a golden legend / adapted by Margaret Hodges from Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene ; illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman. - First edition. - 32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 27 cm

Retells the segment from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, in which George, the Red Cross Knight, slays the dreadful dragon that has been terrorizing the countryside for years and brings peace and joy to the land.



Caldecott medal, 1985

9780316367950 0316367893

83019980


George, Saint, -303 --Legends.
George, Saint, -303 --Juvenile literature.


Folklore--England--Juvenile literature.
Knights and knighthood--Folklore.
Dragons--Folklore.


Juvenile literature--1984.