Book recommendation for a mythology-loving kid?

[La Condessa]

Looking for a book for my dd8 for Christmas.  She adores D'aulaire's Greek Myths and Norse Myths.  Can someone recommend something similar, kid-oriented but pretty detailed, for another mythology?  Maybe Egyptian?

 

Thanks.

[Pam in CT]

Take a peek at some of Geraldine McCaughrean's and Rosemary Sutcliffe's  and Leonard Everett Fisher's many many books.  For Egypt specifically, Jim Weiss has a couple of nice audiobooks for younger ages and then for slightly older kids (maybe 10+?), Rick Riordan's Kane Chronicles spin-out series is fun.

[kbutton]

My son likes this one: https://www.amazon.com/Tales-Ancient-Egypt-Puffin-Classics/dp/014133259X/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1510454104&sr=8-6&keywords=egyptian+myths

 

He has read some Rick Riordan as well.

[Tanaqui]

Donna Jo Napoli has a set of lovely books on various mythologies, including one on Egyptian mythology.

https://smile.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=donna+jo+napoli+egypt

 

I would whole-heartedly recommend them to anybody who likes mythology and still likes illustrations.

[La Condessa]

Thanks for the great suggestions!

[gardenmom5]

is she ready for rick riordan?

[La Condessa]

She enjoys Riordan.  We've allowed her to read some of his and not others.  (I couldn't tell you which ones; dh is the one who has read them before and felt that some of them had elements she wasn't ready for yet.)

[Carol in Cal.]

Do you already have:

Black Ships Before Troy (The Illiad)

The Wanderings of Odysseus (The Odyssey)

In Search of a Homeland (The Aenaid)

 

???

 

If not, get them!  They a beautifully illustrated and well-written.  I used them with DD at the same time as the mythology book you mentioned.

 

Hatshepsut and Ancient Egypt is a good bio of Hatshepsut, woman pharaoh, and include a lot of great illustrations as well as 'life and times' information.  (Miriam Greenblatt)

Ancient Egyptians and Their Neighbors is another good 'life and times' book that includes quite a few crafts.  (Marian Broida)

I don't think that we had a book of Egyptian myths, but they were woven into these and other books that we used, and these were two that we particularly enjoyed.

 

 

 

 

[nixpix5]

Do you already have:

Black Ships Before Troy (The Illiad)

The Wanderings of Odysseus (The Odyssey)

In Search of a Homeland (The Aenaid)

 

???

 

If not, get them! They a beautifully illustrated and well-written. I used them with DD at the same time as the mythology book you mentioned.

These Rosemary Sutcliffe ones plus the Aeneid rendition are fantastic.

 

My kids also loved Mary Pope Osborne Odyssey books. They were so into those.

 

There are some great Minotaur ones. One in particular, and I cannot remember the author but I will go look, but it brings in alot more mythological stories into one.

 

ETA: The Hero and the Minotaur by Byrd. I asked my kids and they all remembered because it was a library book and they wanted their own copy haha.

Edited November 12, 2017 by nixpix5