The D'Aulaire's were a married couple that did a lot of books together. I get a pile of their books out before I give a co-opperative 4th grade assignment. Kids are amazed.
my local library bought a new copy to replace one that was getting pretty beat up and a librarian gave it to me instead of putting it into the sale pile because i had checked it out so much lol
I had this when I was a kid. Read it countless times. Found a copy at a library book sale and immediately bought it for my son. He did not care. Two Percy Jackson books later, it has not left his bedside in months. Never bet against the champ.
It's the best. I lowkey look down on my sister for having a copy but never sharing it with my niece and nephew. (The two of us read it with our mom of course)
I read this exact copy so many times as a kid that I recently went and acquired a new copy just to put into my library. The art in it was just so evocative to kid me
i found a copy of this in my parents closet as a kid and was so excited i figured it was a birthday present but they bought it for some other kid, i have never forgiven them
robert graves is fun too especially the second edition when he adds the preface that the greeks were probably on mushrooms and he doesn't think the myths were fake anymore
My fifth grade English class spent an entire semester on this book! We also did an event called Greek Day where we dressed up and acted out stories. So many great memories!
I loved that one, which my younger brother had. I'd gotten started on this, alongside a copy of the "By Jove" board game, and then moved on to Edith Hamilton.
This was a cornerstone of our childhood library too. Only after having a kid did I come across the Norse version, or the books about near-mythological US presidents —we own the Lincoln one. Ingri & Edgar d'Aulaire were a husband & wife team who immigrated to the US & won an early Caldecott. #Kidlit
