Illustrated Stories from the Greek Myths

Very nice book. It's good for a young age group because it is very illustration heavy. Every page has a picture, and they often take up the entire page. The art style is fairly modern, which is nice because I feel like the smoother, not so-complex as normal fantasy/historical art style is easier for kids. My son is still a baby, too young for the book really. But I was getting very sick of reading "Brown Bear What Do You See," even if it is a great baby book for introducing adjectives/colors. He still likes the pictures and will get wide eyed over them. For now, it's a bit more to stop me from being bored; we do a chapter when I really don't want to do the same 10 page book for the 20th time, and my son doesn't seem to mind. It's fairly compete. It has the Iliad story (mostly focusing on the Trojan Horse that isn't actually in the Iliad, no Achilles), the Odyssey, Theseus and the Minotaur, Perseus and Medusa, Bellerophon and Pegasus, the Twelve Labors of Hercules, and some shorter ones (no Orpheus, Persephone, very short Jason bit though). Keeps true to the main stories but avoids a lot of the violence/sexual violence of the originals, which is nice. Great pick for a young child, really as young as they can follow a narrative, it is low on text and high on pictures. I will definitely check out the same brand's King Arthur and Norse Myth books, probably the science/history encyclopedias too, although those seem aimed at kids a bit older. John Stewart Mill may have read the Iliad in Greek by age 5, but my little guy already cleared the entire story in 5 mornings with this little book (lol). For people with kids a bit older, who could master the text here, there are also graphic novels that cover the myths at a bit of a higher level.

High quality and colorful manuscript. Will appeal especially to young teenagers.

I bought all of nieces Greek Mythology books. This was a wonderful book and they loved the stories

Good quality. Great color on illustrations. Good book to grow with

Overall, the book serves its purpose well. Younger kids like it as it is smaller format and is rather easy to read. My only complaint is the quality of illustrations: though abundant, they are rather primitive and not very exciting. I have a few older books from my child years to compare it against, and it certainly does not stand

We are planning a trip to Greece with our young child, and want to help her appreciate the historic setting of the country and sights we will be seeing. This book is thick and at first I thought it would be too advanced for her, but it is very easy for children to understand and it reads very quickly despite its size. One thing to be aware of is that not all of these stories have a happy ending! I was aware of this, but having them all back to back really emphasizes how the Greek gods were just as likely to punish their followers as they were to protect them.

I love Usborne products. That are always well made, last, and have beautiful illustrations. I use this in my 3rd grade class at a Classical school for our ancient Greece unit.

My grandnephew (age 6) loved this book!

Lovely book written in simple language with well spaced illustrations. Just the thing for reading to a young child, and perhaps as the child grows older and is able to read themselves, a source book. These are legends on which our culture is based and every child should be familiar with them.

As a person who used to read about myths, this book is pretty decent, I liked the illustrations and stories were exciting.

my 5 year old son has really enjoyed this as bed time stories. lots of adventures. great illustrations. good length chapters to be convenient.

Great illustrations and easily-accessible language. We’re enjoying this book as a family!

These books are fine My son is a few months shy of 7 and knew nothing of the Greek myths before this book. Reading it to him i was suprised how much was left out of the tales and would probably have purchsed something else had i leafed through it in a store first, but for him they opened a world of history and mystery and he enjoyed it. There a good way to dip a toe into the mythos but so much is missing. The whole last section of the book other than the map is just pointless and should have been an extra myth. I dont regret the purchase, it was a fun weeks worth of bed time stories, that my son enjoyed. But i am now immediatly looking for another book that covers a little more