Percy Jackson's Greek heroes
2015
- greek mythology
- juvenile fiction
- greek gods
- fiction
- juvenile literature
- classics
- fairy tales & folklore
- anthologies
- legends, myths, fables
- greek & roman
The story
Who cut off Medusa's head? Who was raised by a she-bear? Who tamed Pegasus? It takes a demigod to know, and Percy Jackson can fill you in on the all the daring deeds of Perseus, Atalanta, Bellerophon, and the rest of the major Greek heroes. Told in the funny, irreverent style readers have come to expect from Percy -- Provided by publisher.
What it’s like
Brisk, chatty, and sunlit, like a sticky-fingered summer afternoon with a favorite cousin doing the voices. The prose is conversational and wisecracking, with a teenage narrator who breaks in mid-myth to aside, tease the gods, and crack jokes about heroic bravado, so the sentences bounce along in short bursts with plenty of white space and bold headers for each legend. Think cheerful, slightly rowdy warmth rather than atmosphere: the Greek world appears as a bright, sun-baked mosaic of cliffs, labyrinths, and monsters rendered in cartoonish detail, and the humor keeps even the grislier stories light. Violence is present but brief and never lingering: beheadings, monsters and battles are told quickly and matter-of-factly, with little gore and no sexual content. It is a comfortable read for a lazy weekend, a car trip, or bedtime reading with a child, and it suits readers who want myth delivered as swift, funny storytelling. Ideal for middle-grade readers and adults who want an easy, low-stakes entry into Greek legend.
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