The Revenge of Ishtar
10 best books like The Revenge of Ishtar (Ludmila Zeman): The Golden Goblet, Saint George and the Dragon, The Egyptian Cinderella, Black Ships Before Troy, Solving the Puzzle Under the Sea: Marie Tharp Maps the Ocean Floor, Mummies Made in Egypt, Jambalaya: The Natural Woman's Book of Personal Charms and Practical Rituals, Tales from the Odyssey, Part 2, Encyclopedia of Gods: Over 2,500 Deities of the World, Yours in Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives on Anti-Semitism and Racism
| Author | Eloise Jarvis McGraw |
I really liked this book when I was 11, and I really liked this book twenty-one years later. Somehow Eloise Jarvis McGraw makes Ranofer, the main character, easily relatable without turning him into a kid that thinks, talks and acts like a twentieth century American kid who happens to be living in ancient...
Saint George and the Dragon
| Author | Margaret Hodges |
| ISBN | 0316367958 |
This special new paperback edition of St. George and the Dragon commemorates the 25th Anniversary of the Caldecott Award-winning picture book. Hodges retells an exciting segment from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, in which the Red Cross Knight slays a dreadful dragon that has been terrorizing the...
| Author | Shirley Climo |
| ISBN | 0064432793 |
"Climo has woven this ancient tale, a mixture of fact and myth, with clarity and eloquence. The beauty of the language is set off to perfection by Heller's arresting illustrations. A stunning combination of fluent prose and exquisitely wrought illustrations that makes] a winner for story hours, as...
| Author | Rosemary Sutcliff |
| ISBN | 0711215227 |
Homer's epic poem, The Iliad, is one of the greatest adventure stories of all time. Rich with arresting imagery and memorable characters, its powerful metaphors still permeate modern culture. This brilliant retelling offers young readers an exciting introduction to the heroes of ancient Greece...
| Author | Robert Burleigh |
| ISBN | 1481416006 |
Filled with gorgeous illustrations by acclaimed artist Raúl Colón, this illustrated biography shares the story of female scientist, Marie Tharp, a pioneering woman scientist and the first person to ever successfully map the ocean floor.
Marie Tharp was always fascinated by the ocean....
| Author | Aliki |
| ISBN | 0064460118 |
Mummies Made in Egypt by Aliki Brandenberg describes and illustrates the techniques and reasons for the use of mummification in ancient Egypt. Ancient Egyptians believed that when someone died they would live in their tombs on earth but travel to live with gods and goddesses in another world.
The...
| Author | Luisah Teish |
| ISBN | 0062508598 |
Be Thou Forewarned...I am incapable of being non-biased when it comes to this book. I'm simply too close to the material it explores, and after reading it, I feel a strong connection to Ms. Luisah Teish herself. And that, in short, is why I adore it.
"Jambalaya: The Natural Woman's Book of Personal...
| Author | Mary Pope Osborne |
| ISBN | 1423126106 |
After twenty years of fighting monsters, angering gods and goddesses, and surviving against the odds, Odysseus is more desperate than ever to return to his family. But first he will have to explore yet another strange land. And when he finally does return home, he will have yet more dangerous enemies...
| Author | Michael Jordan |
| ISBN | 0816029091 |
Since the beginning of time, the same mysteries have puzzled people on every continent; the same fears have beset them. They have attempted to explain the mysteries and allay the fears in the same way - through the worship of gods. Deities have been identified with the human psyche for at least 60,000...
| Author | Elly Bulkin |
| ISBN | 0932379532 |
Politics. Cultural Writing. New to SPD. The award-winning feminist and lesbian press Firebrand Books closed its doors last year after sixteen years in the business. The authors of YOURS IN STRUGGLE -- Elly Bulkin, Minnie Bruce Pratt, and Barbara Smith -- have now made the 1988 Firebrand edition of...
| Author | Gyo Fujikawa |
| ISBN | 0760734003 |
William Blake, Kate Greenaway, Emily Dickinson: the writers in this charming anthology of 200 poems—first published in 1969—are among literature’s most beloved. And Gyo Fujikawa’s appealing illustrations depict children of all races sweetly interacting, as well as an engagingly rendered...
| Author | Douglas Glover |
| ISBN | 0864923155 |
Imagine a 16th-century society belle turned Robinson Crusoe, a female Don Quixote with an Inuit Sancho Panza, and you'll have an inkling of what's in store in Douglas Glover's outrageously Rabelaisian new novel -- his first in ten years. Elle is a lusty, subversive riff on the discovery of the New World,...
