The great monster

Mesopotamia, 2500 years ago. Everyone in the tribe must work; all the men go hunting for bulls and mountain lions - apart from Sin-leqi, that is.

Sin-leqi stays home and reads tablets in the great temples.

The tablets tell tales of the legendary Gilgamesh, tales that are so fantastastical that lazy Sin-leqi doesn't have to work, as long as he keeps telling them.

But when the story comes to end, Sin-leqi is in trouble.

A new exciting tale, based on real historical and archeological evidence, this story is full of Terry Deary's imaginative style and dry wit.