There is more room for details in the background and the emphasis is placed on characters, feelings and events because of this. 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. The comic strip style appeals to us because it has lots of detailed pictures as well as short pieces of writing to tell the story.

Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. 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. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.Has the same healthy attitude of seriousness mixed with irreverence as the Greeks themselves; every page crammed with hilarious, minutely detailed strip drawings. I recommend the Theseus and the Minotaur myth because it is very good and the illustrations are fantastic!

and TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE Marcia Williams introduces young readers to the world of William Shakespeare's plays. Written in horizontal comic strip fashion, this book retells eight Greek Myths in a humorous and fun way. Of her inspiration for this book, she tells of a teacher she once had "who was extremely fierce and angry .Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. Her books are something I can see children getting excited about at story time as they have pictures to follow which are sometimes amusing, I think would be a great way of getting children to understand sometimes complicated stories, and have fun.

The artist also found pleasure in creating CHARLES DICKENS AND FRIENDS, which presents five retellings of classic Dickens tales. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. The only thing adults should keep in mind when introducing this book to children is there is violence in some of the myths.

Seeing as how she has written many books in her days, I would expect her to have a little creativity. This book is a collection of some of the most famous and classic greek myths including "Pandora's Box," "Arion and the Dolphins," "Orpheus and Eurydice," "The Twelve Tasks of Hercules," Daedalus and Icarus," "Perseus and the Gorgon's Head," "Theseus and the Minotaure," and "Arachne Versus Athena. But i did love the fact that she cut down the stories into little pieces to help younger kids comprehend them. The illustrations and dialogue within the illustrations was funny and definitely made it more interesting to me. The book is nice and 100% readable, but the book has visible wear which may include stains, scuffs, scratches, folded edges, sticker glue, highlighting, notes, and worn corners.