A review by rpych2
Greek Myths: A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys by Nathaniel Hawthorne

3.0

This is going to be a weird one to rate for me, so I’m just going to put it at 3 stars and move on. I love Greek mythology and think this is a pretty good introduction for children, but there are a lot of things that were inexplicably left out. Like the fact that many of these characters were actually gods or their names at all. Athena in the story of Perseus wasn’t even named, and Hermes was called Quicksilver like he was in the X-Men. Obviously they were cleaned up because young children don’t necessarily need to know how demigods came about, but some of the other choices seem weird.

Also, I didn’t love the interludes of someone literally telling the stories we were reading to their children, it seemed unnecessary to me but I do understand why others might like it. Personally though, I’d have liked for more mythology. Solid book for the age group, just maybe not others.