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TreeTops Greatest Stories: Icarus

UK Publisher: Oxford University Press

Children can dream of what it is like to fly in this reworking of Ovid’s classic myth, told through the eyes of servant girl Amara. When Daedalus the inventor and his son Icarus are imprisoned by King Minos, escape looks impossible. But with his ingenious talent Daedalus manages to construct wings, enabling the pair to take on the form of birds. Tragedy strikes when Icarus fails to listen to his father’s instructions, and the invention that should be his saviour proves to be the opposite.

Susan Gates was born in 1950, in Grimsby, and at 18 she went to Africa to teach in a school...