"You Gotta Love Aphrodite!" Percy Jackson's Greek Gods by Rick Riordan
"I hope I'm getting extra credit for this. A publisher in New York asked me to write down what I know about the Greek gods, and I was like, Can we do this anonymously? Because I don't need the Olympians mad at me again.
If you don't know me, my name is Percy Jackson. I'm a modern demi-god."
And who better to give us up-close-and-personal thumbnail bios of those classical mythology characters than Rick Riordan's demi-god hero, Percy Jackson? Having spent more literary time than he really wanted dodging lightning bolts and other insults to his person with those guys, he's surely got the inside track to their personalities. The hero of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Percy's chapter headings give us an idea of what's in store within: "The Beginning and Stuff; The Golden Age of Cannibalism;
Percy/Rick provides a disclaimer that "there are bazillions of different versions of the myths, so don't get all 'Well, I heard it a different way.'" But with some allowance for Percy's tongue-in-cheek delivery, Rick Riordan's just published Percy Jackson's Greek Gods
Percy Jackson offers an afterword and a thorough index, but appends his own ironical message for his dear readers:
"Please. There are about 100,000 Greek Gods out there. I am a little too ADHD to include everyone of them.
Please don't give the publisher any ideas. This writing gig is hard!
Labels: Gods, Greek Mythology--Fiction (Grades 5-10), Greek--Fiction
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