 | D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths by Ingri d'Aulaire
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $6.93 The unsurpassed children's classic. Beautifully illustrated bite-size accounts of the best known tales of gods and men.
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 | The Wanderings of Odysseus by Rosemary Sutcliff
Buy used from: $5.83 This is the place to go after you've digested D'Aulaires. Here youÂ92ll find the Cyclops, Scilla and Charibdis, the Sirens, and more. Literary language, complex story telling,fantastic watercolor illustrations.
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 | Black Ships Before Troy by Rosemary Sutcliff
Buy new: $9.91 / Used from: $13.90 This version of Homer's Illiad has it all: vanity, folly, bloodshed, hubris, despair, violence, tragedy. Beautifully told, sophisticated, compelling.
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 | D'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths by Ingri D'Aulaire
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $14.89 GLoki the Trickster, Thor the god of Thunder, and Freya the most beautiful goddess will enchant kids, as will the gnomes, giants, Valkyries and warriors that populate this mythic world.
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 | The children of Odin: The book of the Northern myths by Padraic Colum
Buy used from: $4.00 Norse myths and Teutonic tales as interpreted by the Irish poet and playwright.
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 | King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table (Little Golden Book) by Emma Gelders-Sterne
Buy used from: $20.84 Majestic illustrations by Swedish artist Gustaf Tenggren distinguish this edition. Gelders-Sterne's retelling is crisp and clear, while retaining the atmosphere of the days long disappeared.
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 | Favorite Medieval Tales by Mary Pope Osborne
Buy used from: $1.26 Our kids know Osborne for her Magic Tree House stories. Here, she brings to life Medieval classics. Osborne knows her audience, and knows how to tell a good story.
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 | Beautiful Stories From Shakespeare by Edith Nesbit
Buy new: $8.49 / Used from: $15.48 Brief synopses of the story lines of Shakespeare's plays, told in an engaging narrative style which still preserves some of the literary quality of the original.
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 | Ten Classic Jewish Children's Stories by Peninnah Schram
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $4.90 Schram is the Director of the Jewish Storytelling Center. Jewish tales from the Talmud, Aggadah, and Torah Midrash, expanding on or dramatizing holy Jewish scriptures.
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 | The Children's Illustrated Bible by Selina Hastings
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $4.02 A focus on the most compelling and memorable stories, told with lively narration and dialog. Historical side-bars help with context.
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 | Ayat Jamilah: Beautiful Signs: A Treasury of Islamic Wisdom for Children and Parents (Aesop Prize (Awards)) by Sarah Conover
Buy new: $17.95 / Used from: $15.71 Retellings of Qur'anic passages, parables from the Hadiths, and stories from Islamic mystics.
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 | Gilgamesh the King (The Gilgamesh Trilogy) by Ludmila Zeman
Buy new: $8.95 / Used from: $3.99 This is the oldest recorded story in the world: it all starts here. Zeman studied the Sumerian and Babylonian artifacts in the Metropolitan Museum for the illustrations.
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 | The Revenge of Ishtar (The Gilgamesh Trilogy) by Ludmila Zeman
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 | Gilgamesh the Hero by Geraldine McCaughrean
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $9.00 This version of the classic epic is longer and more developed than the Zeman books. McCaughrean enhances and elaborates with skillful and evocative dialogue and description.
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 | The Ramayana for Children by Bulbul Sharma
Buy used from: $899.98 This Hindu epic is a series of exciting adventures which read as great stories for children.
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 | Hanuman, paper by Joshua M. Greene
Buy used from: $6.95 The dramatic climax of the Ramayana, wherein Hanuman the monkey and the great monkey army help Prince Rama save Princess Sita from the Ten-Headed Demon King.
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 | Hanuman: The Heroic Monkey God (Minibook) by Joshua Greene
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $4.92 A longer version of the Hanuman story.
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