In 2021 I was invited to be part of a brainstorming session about ways to spread information about children’s books involving Greek and Roman antiquity. The result is Calliope’s Library (link here), and I serve as a member of the board. I’ve contributed a number of brief overviews of titles, and I thought I’d make them available here as well.
Click on each title to open the write-up. The list is alphabetical by first author’s last name:
David Almond, My Name is Mina
Julie Berry, All the Truth That’s in Me
Guy Billout, Thunderbolt & Rainbow
Karrie Fransman and Jonathan Plackett, Gender Swapped Greek Myths
Ann Clare LeZotte, Deer Run Home
Joan Holub and Leslie Patricelli, Please Share, Aphrodite
David Macaulay, Rome Antics
Elle McNicoll, Show Us Who You Are
Christopher Myers, Wings
Ami Polonsky, Gracefully Grayson
Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, The Heroes of Olympus, and Trials of Apollo
Dugald Steer, Mythology
Ann Marie Stephens & Tracy Subisak, Cy Makes a Friend
Victoria Turnbull, Pandora