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The stories in A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys are all stories within a story. The frame story is that Eustace Bright, a Williams College student, is telling these tales to a group of children at Tanglewood, an area in Lenox, Massachusetts, where Hawthorne lived for a time. All the tales are modified versions of ancient Greek myths:
Psichogios Publications was founded in 1979 (45 years ago) () by Mr. Thanos Psichogios who published four children's fiction titles.. In the 1980s the company was mostly known in the Greek readership for their children fiction with popular authors such as Roald Dahl, Michael Ende, Graham Greene, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and others.
Sheila Murnaghan of the University of Pennsylvania wrote:. The new classic status of myth collections, and the impulse to attack them in order to be popular, is well illustrated by the "Myth-O-Mania" books, a series for young readers (the recommended age range is 9-12) by Kate McMullan, published by Hyperion in 2002 and 2003, beginning with the first title, Have a Hot Time, Hades!, going ...
In "The Lightning Thief,” the first book in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, school mythology textbooks become real life when 12-year-old Percy discovers he’s the son of the Greek ...
The first book in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series swoops young readers into the world of Greek mythology. A 12-year-old with ADHD and dyslexia finds out that his dad is the Greek god of ...
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Some fairy tales of the Ancient Greeks was released as part of the children's book series Books for the Bairns and is issue number 99. [ 2 ] [ 1 ] This book series was founded to make books appealing and affordable to children, and to provide them with an opportunity to read. [ 2 ]
On Passions consisted of four books; of which the first three discussed the Stoic theory of emotions and the fourth book discussed therapy and had a separate title—Therapeutics. Most surviving quotations come from Books 1 and 4, although Galen also provides an account of Book 2 drawn from the 1st-century BCE Stoic philosopher Posidonius ...