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Publisher: Orchard Books
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9781860395321
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1997 and now available in paperback, a re-telling of a classic tale in the ORCHARD MYTHS series, with amusing illustrations by Tony Ross.
Author: Greek Mythology
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Published: 2015-11-22
Total Pages: 26
ISBN-13: 9780994377166
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDaedalus and his son Icarus were famous and well known architects in Greece, Egypt and even Persia. They Made wings to escape from the king Minoas' prison as the tyrant king didn't allow them to return to their homeland.
Author: Penelope Farmer
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Published: 1971-01-01
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9780001951532
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James Baldwin
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Published: 1895
Total Pages: 220
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Karen Moncrieffe
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
Published: 2015-12-03
Total Pages: 141
ISBN-13: 0857471694
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnderstanding Myths and Legends contains 27 stories from different countries around the World, ranging from Perseus and Medusa from Ancient Greece to an Indian legend on how the Peacock got his glorious feathers. These exciting stories are full of fearsome monsters, brave heroes and magical happenings, and will appeal to both girls and boys. Understanding Myths and Legends is a flexible resource that can be used to support topic work in history and RE or used as part of a unit of work in literacy. The stories and activities are ideal for use in guided reading sessions. To enable teachers to make the most of each story, they are accompanied by: background information to enable teachers to place the story confidently in context; differentiated reading tasks, using a variety of question styles, to help improve children's reading and comprehension skills; speaking and listening activities to deepen children's insight into the stories and encourage engagement; cross-curricular follow-up ideas, enabling you to extend the story further. Myths and legends are not only excellent stories. They also help children to gain a true understanding of life in ancient times and improve their understanding of other people, cultures and places, making them an essential part of the primary curriculum.
Author: Wu Ch'eng-en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2005-01-27
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0141930101
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMonkey depicts the adventures of Prince Tripitaka, a young Buddhist priest on a dangerous pilgrimage to India to retrieve sacred scriptures accompanied by his three unruly disciples: the greedy pig creature Pipsy, the river monster Sandy – and Monkey. Hatched from a stone egg and given the secrets of heaven and earth, the irrepressible trickster Monkey can ride on the clouds, become invisible and transform into other shapes – skills that prove very useful when the four travellers come up against the dragons, bandits, demons and evil wizards that threaten to prevent them in their quest. Wu Ch’êng-ên wrote Monkey in the mid-sixteenth century, adding his own distinctive style to an ancient Chinese legend, and in so doing created a dazzling combination of nonsense with profundity, slapstick comedy with spiritual wisdom.
Author: Alison Bechdel
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780618871711
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fresh and brilliantly told memoir from a cult favorite comic artist, marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst, and great books. This breakout book by Alison Bechdel is a darkly funny family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Bechdel's sweetly gothic drawings. Like Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, it's a story exhilaratingly suited to graphic memoir form. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian home, a third-generation funeral home director, a high school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out, is involved with his male students and a family babysitter. Through narrative that is alternately heartbreaking and fiercely funny, we are drawn into a daughter's complex yearning for her father. And yet, apart from assigned stints dusting caskets at the family-owned "fun home," as Alison and her brothers call it, the relationship achieves its most intimate expression through the shared code of books. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescense, the denouement is swift, graphic -- and redemptive.
Author: Will Roberts
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Published: 2020-10-14
Total Pages: 42
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe classic story of Daedalus the brilliant engineer who built The Labyrinth to house the Minotaur, for King Minos, but who fell out of favour and was imprisoned in a tower. He made wings of wax and feathers for his son Icarus and himself, and flew away from the island and their captors. Unfortunately, despite warnings from his father, Icarus flew too close to the sun, the wax holding his wings together melted and he plunged into the sea.
Author: Jean Lang
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
Published: 2023-07-11
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 3849663752
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A Book of Myths" deals in a most entertaining manner with the mythology of Greece and Rome and many other noted lands. Added to the pleasure of the story there is the lure of the legend and the spell of old ways and customs. Not only many of the most celebrated are retold, but also many of the less well-known tales. The aim of the author, it is stated, has been to simplify for those who are not erudite scholars the stories of mythology, to which constant reference is made not only in classic, but in modern poetry, and to direct the attention of readers to poems which are not already known to them. Included are tales of Prometheus, Pygmalion, Orpheus, Perseus, King Midas, Pan, the Lorelei, Baldur and many more.
Author: Genevieve Liveley
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2010-12-23
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 1441136959
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPerhaps no other classical text has proved its versatility so much as Ovid's epic poem. A staple of undergraduate courses in Classical Studies, Latin, English and Comparative Literature, Metamorphoses is arguably one of the most important, canonical Latin texts and certainly among the most widely read and studied. Ovid's 'Metamorphoses': A Reader's Guide is the ideal companion to this epic classical text offering guidance on: • Literary, historical and cultural context • Key themes • Reading the text • Reception and influence • Further reading
