Why am I passionate about this?
James' 3 favorite reads in 2023
Plus, James' 9-year-old's favorite books.
Why did James' 9-year-old love this book?
My kid loves this graphic novel series because of its accurate, imaginative portrayal of the Greek gods. There are various levels of adult themes in Zeus and its successors, but the author manages (for the most part) to present them in ways that scale with the age of the reader.
1 author picked Zeus as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it. This book is for kids age 9, 10, 11, and 12.
George O'Connor is a Greek mythology buff and a classic superhero comics fan, and he's out to remind us how much our pantheon of superheroes (Superman, Batman, the X-Men, etc) owes to mankind's ORIGINAL superheroes: the Greek pantheon.
In Olympians, O'Connor draws from primary documents to reconstruct and retell classic Greek myths. But these stories aren't sedate, scholarly works. They're action-packed, fast-paced, high-drama adventures, with monsters, romance, and not a few huge explosions. O'Connor's vibrant, kinetic art brings ancient tales to undeniable life, in a perfect fusion of super-hero aesthetics and ancient Greek mythology.
Volume 1 of Olympians, Zeus: King…