Pegasus
10 best books like Pegasus (Marianna Mayer): Sleeping Beauty, Cupid and Psyche, The Gods and Goddesses of Olympus, Persephone, The Snow Princess, The Tale of the Firebird, The Lady and the Lion: A Brothers Grimm Tale, The Kitchen Knight: A Tale of King Arthur, Merlin and the Dragons, The Last Quest of Gilgamesh
| Author | Mahlon F. Craft |
| ISBN | 1587171201 |
Sleeping Beauty's enchanted slumber has captivated readers' hearts for centuries. Now brought luminously to life by K. Y. Craft's lavish paintings, this new edition of a timeless favorite is sure to enchant readers both young and old. Fairy tale lovers have been eagerly awaiting Craft's next magical...
| Author | M. Charlotte Craft |
| ISBN | 0688131638 |
Psyche is the most beautiful woman in the world, yet the oracle at Delphi foresees she will fall in love with a creature feared even by the gods themselves.
Magically, Psyche finds herself in a magnificent castle fitted with sweet music, attentive servants, and a charming but invisible host....
| Author | Aliki |
| ISBN | 0064461890 |
Long, long ago in ancient Greece, people began telling wonderful stories to explain the mysteries of life. These myths featured gods and goddesses, mighty beings who look human but have amazing powers and live forever. Now you can meet these extraordinary characters and hear their legends, brought...
| Author | Sally Pomme Clayton |
| ISBN | 1845075331 |
As soon as I saw the cover image I wanted this book. It is perfect for the myth: lovely and sad and dark and mysterious. Several other illustrations were also quite striking, especially the one where Demeter's cloak is turning into storm cloud to spread winter over the earth. I like the visual connections...
| Author | Ruth Sanderson |
| ISBN | 0316779822 |
I love to read picture books, mainly for their illustrations. Ruth Sanderson's illustrations are always exceptional. Here, she knocks this out of the park because this is full of magic and the most amazing illustrations.
As for the story, this has a happier ending compared to the story I knew...
| Author | Gennady Spirin |
| ISBN | 0399235841 |
In all the world there is said to be nothing more beautiful than the Firebird. When Ivan-Tsarevitch, youngest son of the Tsar, goes on a quest for the amazing bird, he finds himself flying over mountains and woods on a talking wolf, confronting a wicked Baba Yaga, and rescuing an enchanted princess from...
| Author | Jacqueline K. Ogburn |
| ISBN | 0803726511 |
Love and honor can overcome even the fiercest obstacles, as we see in this spellbinding fairy tale, with shades of "Beauty and the Beast." To save her father, a young woman must go to the castle of a menacing lion. She fears for her life, but finds kindness rather than danger there, for the lion by day is a...
Well, I have modern sensibilities and could never get into Arthurian lore. But I loved Saint George and the Dragon by this team, and so I had to try this. Very glad I did. Not dumbed-down for kids, not updated for feminists, it is what it is. And it does set up the scene, tone, atmosphere, values... well enough...
| Author | Jane Yolen |
| ISBN | 0140558918 |
Young King Arthur, troubled by nightmares, doubts he is the rightful king of England. One rainy night, the wizard Merlin tells Arthur the story of dueling dragons and a fateful clash between good and evil, which reveals the surprising secret of the boy king's true legacy. Li Ming's arresting oil paintings...
| Author | Ludmila Zeman |
| ISBN | 0887763286 |
In his final quest, Gilgamesh, still mourning the death of his dear friend Enkidu, sets out to find the key to immortality. His journey is perilous. He must fight ferocious serpents and wild lions. He travels through bitterly cold caves, across scorching deserts, and over the fatal waters of the Sea...
| Author | Odds Bodkin |
| ISBN | 0152163506 |
Here is my blackboard response on The Crane Wife and Dawn, two traditional tales on the same theme that were quite relevant and depressing after screwing up big time with a physically and intellectually beautiful girl this summer.
What They Were About (NECESSARY SPOILER ALERTS)
The...
| Author | Katrin Hyman Tchana |
| ISBN | 0316387010 |
I've just read this quickly before sending it to my niece. I'm disappointed that the prose doesn't sparkle. Tchana is a pedestrian stylist and there are certainly better-written folktales. But the content is fabulous. The 'princesses' are bright, curious, patient, physically courageous, thoughtful,...
| Author | Laurence Yep |
| ISBN | 0064435180 |
When a poor farmer falls into the clutches of a dragon, only Seven, his youngest daughter, will save him—by marrying the beast.
Publishers Weekly praised "Yep's elegant, carefully crafted storytelling" and Mak's "skillfully and radiantly rendered illustrations" in this captivating and...
| Author | Diane Stanley |
| ISBN | 0688154808 |
Cleopatra is a partial biography picture book written and illustrated by Diane Stanley and Peter Vennema. The book begins with Cleopatra at age 18, when she was crowned Queen of Egypt in 51 BC. The book covers her struggle for power against the advisors of her young brother, the King. Cleopatra allied...
| Author | Robert Sabuda |
| ISBN | 0689817304 |
Small and frail, Tutankhamen was an all but ignored member of the royal family of the great Egyptian pharoah Amenhotep III. At the school of the "menoi," or tutors, he did not excel at physical activities with the other royal princes. Keeping to himself, he observed and admired the work of his father's...
| Author | Kathryn Lasky |
| ISBN | 0316515264 |
A perfect introduction to mathematical concepts for young readers, written by a Newbery honor-winning author!
This colorfully illustrated biography of the Greek philosopher and scientist Eratosthenes, who compiled the first geography book and accurately measured the globe's circumference,...
Tales from the Odyssey, Part 1
| Author | Mary Pope Osborne |
| ISBN | 1423128648 |
Giants and Cannibals!
Wonders and Witches!
One Amazing Hero.
Brave Odysseus is far from home, tossed by stormy seas, and cursed by an angry one-eyed giant. If he ever wants to see his family again, he will have to face hungry cannibals, outwit a beautiful witch, and sail past a six-headed...
| Author | Susan Jeffers |
| ISBN | 0786819952 |
What a beautiful story! It is so gentle and warm and magical; I was carried away.
The little girl in this story longs for a horse of her own but her parents always say its too expensive and they don't have room. They are sweet enough to let her stop by the horses on a drive and smell the horsey fragrance...
