Children's Treasury of Mythology

Author: adapted my multiple editors
Illustrator: Margaret Evans Price
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 158
Recommended Age: 5+

This is actually the mythology book that I remember from when I was a child. The book was originally published in 1993 as "A Child's Book of Myths and Enchantment Tales", and was picked up and republished in 2007 by Barnes and Noble as a part of their bargain book collection.

It is a collection of 20 Greek/Roman myths, beautifully illustrated by Margaret Evans Price and adapted to suit a young audience.The collection uses the Greek names in some places and the Roman in others, so you will find "Proserpina and Pluto" in place of "Persephone and Hades", though the story is the same to both the Greeks and Romans. Each story is written simply enough to be accessible to the younger ages, and the classic Greek and Roman morbidity is toned down as much as possible without outright changing the plot(Apollo still accidentally turns Daphne into a tree and Prometheus still gets chained to a cliff for giving fire to man, etc).

The book itself is also a wonderful, classic looking design with cloth binding. It will easily become a treasured collection of classic stories and give children a valuable first look at mythology.