A review by optimaggie
Gilgamesh the Hero by Geraldine McCaughrean

4.0

We read this book as an extension of our history curriculum and at the beginning of the book I thought of suggesting that we give it up and just read the picture book series about Gilgamesh instead, but my son was enjoying it. I am glad now, upon finishing it, that we didn't set it aside as there were so many things that happened in this book that made me think. In our discussion after we finished reading it we discovered that I preferred the book from the middle to the end, where Gilgamesh is dealing with grief and the desire for immortality and my son preferred the beginning to the middle of the book where Gilgamesh and Enkidu were young and wild and fighting great battles. It makes sense that an 8-year-old boy and a 41-year-old woman would prefer these different parts of the story I think.