D'Aulaire's Book of Greek Myths

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But that doesn't make this volume any less worth owning, but rather underlines its ultimate purpose: to open a door into the bottomless universe of classical studies. This classic introduction to Greek mythology for children, written and illustrated by the husband-wife team, is divided into three main sections.

We encourage them to think for themselves, to question, to seek, to demand that authority earns respect, so their experience with the book isn't as revelatory as mine. This newly updated edition includes a new cover and an afterword featuring never-before-published drawings from the sketchbook of Ingri and Edgar D’Aulaire - plus an essay about their life and work and photos from the family archive.Now updated with a new cover and an afterword featuring never-before-published drawings from the sketchbook of Ingri and Edgar D’Aulaire, plus an essay about their life and work and photos from the family achive. When she was 15, the Norwegian painter Harriet Backer encouraged her to pursue art as a career, and Ingri later studied at art schools in Norway, Germany and France. He garnered enough commissions illustrating books to send for Ingri and they moved into a cold-water walk-up flat in Brooklyn in 1929. All the stuff she did was pretty cool, and really smart to make the daughters of that King cook him alive. The d'Aulaires and Abraham Lincoln won the Caldecott Medal from the American Library Association in 1940, recognizing the previous year's "most distinguished American picture book for children".

My favorite stories were Hades, Persephone, Sisyphus, Hephaestus, and the twelve labors of Heracles. Read about Persephone eating pomegranate seeds, Eos forgetting to ask for eternal youth for her love, Selene learning from her sisters mistake and keeping Edmynion held in eternal sleep, Hephestus and his robots, and Hermes' childhood antics. Now that goodreads has told me that he has added this book to his shelves, I think it even more likely!They completed a sequel in 1976, The Terrible Troll Bird, an adaptation of one of their earlier works, Ola and Blakken. One day he asked me about a myth so I started reading him the book, then I had to go do something (laundry maybe, I forget what).