The Emperors New Clothes

by
Marcus Sedgwick
Illustrator: Alison Jay

This is a satirical story about a very vain Emperor who adores beautiful new clothes and has wardrobes full of them!

When two sly swindlers, masquerading as weavers, tell him that they can make the most beautiful cloth he has ever seen into an incredible outfit, the Emperor's foolhardy vanity gets the better of him.

Marcus Sedgwick's retelling is masterfully accomplished. He has used verse to enhance the text and animals to give an anthropomorphic and human account of this story. Alison Jay's illustrations are of stunning quality and they accompany the action beautifully.

Publisher: Templar

Marcus Sedgwick

Marcus Sedgwick began to write seriously in 1994, and his first book, Floodland, was published by Orion in 2000, and won the Branford-Boase award for best debut children's novel. Witch Hill followed in 2001, and was nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award, the Independent Reading Association award and the Portsmouth Book Award. In 2002 The Dark Horse was shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, The Carnegie Medal and the Blue Peter Book Award.

The Book of Dead Days was nominated for the Guardian Award, and was shortlisted for the Sheffield Book Award and the Edgar Allan Poe Award.
In his spare time, Marcus is a drummer and at the moment play’s the part of Basil Exposition from behind the kit in The International Band of Mystery, an Austin Powers tribute band.

Marcus Sedgwick used to work in children's publishing and before that he was a bookseller. He now happily writes full-time. Marcus lives in Cambridge and has a young daughter, Alice.

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Marcus Sedgwick