BooksList.Best
Search

The Great God Pan

10 best books like The Great God Pan (Donna Jo Napoli): Carlos Is Gonna Get It, Quicksilver, The World Above: A Retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk and Robin Hood, The Gods and Goddesses of Olympus, Goddesses: A World of Myth and Magic, The Wild Swans, Tales from the Brothers Grimm and the Sisters Weird, Psyche in a Dress, Lost in the Labyrinth, The Tale of Troy: Retold from the Ancient Authors

Carlos Is Gonna Get It
AuthorKevin Emerson
ISBN0439935253
Your friends on one side. This weird kid on the other. A great plan in the making. A new friendship growing.
What would *you* do?

How strange is Carlos? REALLY strange. He scratches himself all the time, and he talks about aliens in this weird shaky voice, and he breaks up the class and gets...
Quicksilver
AuthorStephanie Spinner
ISBN0440238455
Hermes—also known as Mercury, Wayfinder, and Prince of Thieves—has many talents. Wearing his famed winged sandals, he does the bidding of his father Zeus, leads the dead down to Hades, and practices his favorite arts of trickery and theft. He also sees the future, travels invisibly, loves jokes,...
The World Above: A Retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk and Robin Hood
AuthorCameron Dokey
ISBN1442403373
Gen and her twin brother, Jack, were raised with their mother's tales of life in the World Above. Gen is skeptical, but adventurous Jack believes the stories--and trades the family cow for magical beans. Their mother rejoices, knowing they can finally return to their royal home.

When Jack...
The Gods and Goddesses of Olympus
AuthorAliki
ISBN0064461890
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...
Goddesses: A World of Myth and Magic
AuthorBurleigh Muten
ISBN1841480754
★ true rating: 3.5 stars ★

Overall this was pretty cute, it showcases 2-3 goddesses on each page. The goddesses are organized in alphabetical order, but there is also a chart in the back of the book that has them organized by region/culture which I thought was a nice touch.
There are 100+...
The Wild Swans
AuthorPeg Kerr
ISBN0446608475
This novel focuses on two outcasts on two journeys in two eras. In 1689 England, Lady Eliza Grey's 11 brothers are turned into swans. Rejected by her father, Eliza is flown to America by her brothers where she has a chance to save them--until she is accused of witchcraft. In the second story, set in 1981...
Tales from the Brothers Grimm and the Sisters Weird
AuthorVivian Vande Velde
Welcome to the fairy-tale world where Hansel and Gretel are horrible children who deserve to be baked and where Beauty is dismayed when her beloved Beast turns human. In the realm of the Brothers Grimm and the Sisters Weird, when the sky really does fall, Chicken Little becomes the leader of a religious...
Psyche in a Dress
AuthorFrancesca Lia Block
ISBN0060763728
But this is what I could not give up: I could not give up myself Psyche has known Love--scented with jasmine and tasting of fresh oranges. Yet he is fleeting and fragile, lost to her too quickly. Punished by self-doubt, Psyche yearns to be transformed, like the beautiful and brutal figures in the myths...
Lost in the Labyrinth
AuthorPatrice Kindl
ISBN0618394028
Last night I saw my sister, who is dead. She stood at the end of a long corridor, weeping. “Can it really be you, Ariadne, come back after all this time?” I whispered. She did not answer, but began slowly to sink through the floor.

Princess Xenodice is content to spend her days tending to the...
The Tale of Troy: Retold from the Ancient Authors
AuthorRoger Lancelyn Green
ISBN0140367454
"To the ancient Greeks the Siege of Troy was the greatest and most important event in the Age of the Heroes – that age of wonder when the Immortals who dwelt on Olympus and whom they worshiped as gods, mingled with mankind and took a visible part in their affairs.

The fall of Troy marks the place...
Hippolyta and the Curse of the Amazons
AuthorJane Yolen
ISBN0064408485
Hippolyta is a true amazon. Proud and brave, she lives for the thrill of the hunt and for the friendship of her fellow female warriors. Then, because her mother demands it and in defiance of the laws of her people, she must take her newborn brother to his father in Troy, where she finds herself in terrible...
Parzival: The Quest of the Grail Knight
AuthorKatherine Paterson
ISBN0141305738
Acclaimed storyteller and Newbery medalist, National Book Awardwinner, and Laura Ingalls Wilder award recipient Katherine Paterson breathes new life into this classic tale of action, adventure, and romance. Raised in the wilderness, Parzival knows nothing of his destiny as the Grail Knight--the...
Jem and the Holograms #2
AuthorKelly Thompson
Ladies and gents, we interrupt whatever the hell I was reading to review Jem and the Holograms #2.

The great thing with this series is the diversity. Not just the overall racial diversity, but there are plus-sized heroines, lesbian heroines (if that freaks you out, too bad. It's 2015. Get over...
The Money Men: Capitalism, Democracy, and the Hundred Years' War Over the American Dollar
AuthorH.W. Brands
ISBN0393330508
Most Americans are familiar with the political history of the United States, but there is another history woven all through it, a largely forgotten history—the story of the money men. Acclaimed historian H. W. Brands brings them back to life: J. P. Morgan, who stabilized a foundering U.S. Treasury...
Ithaka
AuthorAdèle Geras
ISBN0152056033
Many years have passed since the end of the Trojan War, and Penelope is still waiting for her husband, Odysseus, to return home. The city of Ithaka is overrun with uncouth suitors from the surrounding islands who are vying to win Penelope's hand in marriage, thereby gaining control of the land. When a...
Disney Princess #1
AuthorAmy Mebberson
Our whole household are huge fans of Amy Mebberson's Pocket Princesses web comic. She took a hiatus from those to do start this book (understandable, since this one pays). While I prefer the webcomic, I realize that I'm about 35 years too old to be the target audience of this comic book. All that said, this...
The Glass Swallow
AuthorJulia Golding
ISBN0192727621


UPDATE:

all done.

Well, four stars.

I was hoping for ... more. From this book. Dragonfly was a story of cruelty, survival, and clinging to faith when it's all you have. TGS just seems to be about a pretty girl who's good at getting her way.

Peri came across as...
Not the End of the World
AuthorGeraldine McCaughrean
The end of the world is a busy time if you mean to outlive it.

So says Timna—sole daughter of Noah—as she and her family prepare to face the flood that will cleanse the Earth. But during the forty days and nights before the waters recede, the inhabitants of the Ark experience more than just a...
The Dark of the Woods
AuthorEllen Datlow
ISBN0760782776
Twenty-one award-winning fantasy and science fiction writers have transformed traditional fairy tales and legends—including Snow White, Cinderella, Ali Baba, Hansel and Gretel, Rapunzel, Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, and many more—into stories that are completely original, yet still...
Ramayana: Divine Loophole (Hindu Mythology Books, Books on Hindu Gods and Goddesses, Indian Books for Kids)
AuthorSanjay Patel
Artist and veteran Pixar animator Sanjay Patel lends a lush, whimsical illustration style and lighthearted voice to one of Hindu mythology's best-loved and most enduring tales. Teeming with powerful deities, love-struck monsters, flying monkey gods, magic weapons, demon armies, and divine love,...
Fractured Fables
AuthorJim Valentino
ISBN1607062690


3.5 stars

Introduction:

Now, I am a major fairy tale and folktale enthusiast, so whenever I see any form of fairy tales and folktales in books (whether it is through graphic novels or a retelling of the fairy tale), I just have to pick up those series! So, imagine my surprise...
About
Feedback
© BooksList.Best 2024