Greek Myths

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Her unique style has produced such vivid works and action-packed books as GOD AND HIS CREATIONS: TALES FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT. The Greek myths are among the greatest, most exciting stories ever told and feature some of the world’s best loved heroes and heroines. Each page flows in lines of the comic strip with a written narrative underneath each strip and within the frames bubbles are used to emphasize the story and generally add silly humour to the character's reactions to what is going on around them. The author does a nice job of preserving the original myth while still simplifying it enough for young readers to understand.Or Zeus takes revenge on Prometheus, and extinguishes every spark of fire on earth, causing the hungry populace to eat nothing but salad. The artist also found pleasure in creating CHARLES DICKENS AND FRIENDS, which presents five retellings of classic Dickens tales. I think this is better for children to read by themselves and I’d go for ‘The Orchard Book of Greek Myths’ if you’re going to read to the kids. This former nursery school teacher blends her storytelling skills and humorous illustrations with well-known figures and stories from literature. Every year King Minos would tell King Agues to send 7 boys and 7 girls to Crete to be killed by the Minotaur.

If I could make these stories more accessible, I realized, kids wouldn't have to wait until they were grown-up to appreciate them. This dramatic, lovingly-illustrated comic-strip version of the Greek myths fuses incredible tales of heroism and tragedy with humorous, detailed artwork that will always stick in your mind.

The way this book is designed is perfect for introducing Greek Mythogy at a young age expanding their understanding of culture and classic "old school" literature. There is a scene where Perseus meets the nymphs and they give him a helmet to make him invisible, but Perseus doesn't put in on right and they can see his foot. The stories have been summarised and written in language which is simple and more accessible for children. The violence is there though only shown with a drip of blood here and there and obviously dead bodies; this may be an issue with some parents.