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Summary: A must to read at bed time for your kids
Review: Everyone should read this book to their children. It educates and is great story telling. I have two boys, a 10, and a 12 year old. I never see them more in trance, like when they watch TV, than when I am reading aloud a story from this book. The book is written to read aloud. Each story is just short enough for one sitting. It's amazing how you can get so much in a short number of pages for a single story. Each story provides a nice introduction just before the start and a summary of how the story relates words used today. The only thing wrong is I need a follow-up.
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Summary: A great book to read to your child class
Review: I started reading this book to my second grader and she was fascinated. I read the Iliad and Odyssey to her second grade class and they were completely mesmerized (it helped that I read the story of the Cyclops from Classics to Read Aloud). The information at both the beginning and ending of each story is invaluable for classroom discussion.
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Summary: A great book to read to your child class
Review: I started reading this book to my second grader and she was fascinated. I read the Iliad and Odyssey to her second grade class and they were completely mesmerized (it helped that I read the story of the Cyclops from Classics to Read Aloud). The information at both the beginning and ending of each story is invaluable for classroom discussion.
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Summary: my seventh grade students loved these stories
Review: Our daughters are 6 and 10, and we have read from Russell's book for five years. Both girls seek the book out, and they enjoy listening to the stories as much as I enjoy reading them. Having studied Roman mythology when I took Latin, I was a little worried about some of the content--let's face it, the gods and goddesses were sometimes violent, more often randy--and I wasn't sure how the girls would react to some of the goings-on. But Russell does a terrific job minimizing some of the less pleasant events without glossing over them. And, of course, the stories and messages are truly timeless. And there's no better way that I've found to introduce children to the Odyssey, the Iliad, and other epics like them. Our family gives Classic Myths a ringing endorsement for anyone with kids.
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Summary: Outstanding retellings that will hold your kids' attention!
Review: Our daughters are 6 and 10, and we have read from Russell's book for five years. Both girls seek the book out, and they enjoy listening to the stories as much as I enjoy reading them. Having studied Roman mythology when I took Latin, I was a little worried about some of the content--let's face it, the gods and goddesses were sometimes violent, more often randy--and I wasn't sure how the girls would react to some of the goings-on. But Russell does a terrific job minimizing some of the less pleasant events without glossing over them. And, of course, the stories and messages are truly timeless. And there's no better way that I've found to introduce children to the Odyssey, the Iliad, and other epics like them. Our family gives Classic Myths a ringing endorsement for anyone with kids.
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Summary: Classic Myths to Read Aloud
Review: This book is about the ancient Greek Myths. The beginning of the book is the forming of the Greek Gods and Godess came to be like : Zeus and Hera. The middle of the book is mainly about how Hercules gets Pegasus the flying horse and how they become friends and kill the bad monsters. The last part of the book is about how the people of different places get these ideas like Rome.
I started to read this book by when I was bored and grounded so I picked up this book and started to read it. Also if I had to recommend this book to one of my friends they would probably like it because it shows the history of ancient people,also it is good because of the adventure of what would happen to them.
My favorite part of this book is when the queen of Greece got captured by the people of troy. So the Greecks went and made a horse that was hollow and the soliders had to go inside the horse and went into the gates of troy. Then at night all the soldiers came out of the horse and killed all the people that lived in troy. and that's the end of the book review.
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Summary: Classic Myths to Read Aloud
Review: This is a book that explains things about Greek Mythology. The beginning of the book is about the creating of the gods and godess of Mt. Olympus and the beginning of man. In the middle of the book it tells different stories and different morals to the mortals down on earth. At the end of the it tells how the other countries and the cities take the Greek ideas and make them their own, like Rome.
The way I found out about this great book is by my mother , She saw me doing nothing so she told me to read this book. So I started to read it and I got so interested in this book. If I had to recommened this book to someone the person would probably like it because in every story they make it have so much adventure.
My favorite part in this book is when the Queen of Greece Helen gets captured by the people of troy. So the Greeks made a hollow horse and sent it to the people of troy,but in the horse was Greek soldiers. At night when everyone was asleep the Greeks attacked the people of troy. And at the end she retured to her home Greece. Thi is the of the book review.
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Summary: my seventh grade students loved these stories
Review: Though I teach ancient history, I have kearned to include all aspects of the culture, including relevant literature. During Dr.Suess's birthday week, I read a classical myth a day. The students loved them! The reading of these myths sparked enthusiasm like I have never seen before. We explored the relevancy of these myths to today's standards. What was suppossed to take 10-15 minutes, often continued to the next class period. I have found a new and effective teaching tool.
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