by Gillian Cross, Ovid · OUP Oxford · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780198306009
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«Changing Shape» is a children's book of classical mythology by Gillian Cross based on Ovid, published by OUP Oxford in paperback (56 pages, in English).
The book brings together myths from Ovid's Metamorphoses in which the gods transform mortals: Arachne challenges a goddess to a weaving contest, Echo is punished to repeat what she hears, and Narcissus is captivated by his own reflection; it also features Baucis and Philemon's wish to stay together.
It is part of the Oxford Reading Tree TreeTops Greatest Stories series, level 13; selected by Michael Morpurgo and illustrated by Amerigo Pinelli.
It is intended for primary school children, with notes on the inside cover and guided reading activities for the classroom.
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Gillian Claire Cross is a British author of children's books. She won the 1990 Carnegie Medal for Wolf and the 1992 Whitbread Children's Book Award for The Great Elephant Chase. She also wrote The Demon Headmaster book series, which was later turned into a television series by the BBC in January 1996; a sequel series was produced in 2019.
