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402 pp.
| Disney/Hyperion |
August, 2015 |
TradeISBN 978-1-4231-8365-5$24.99
(3)
4-6
Illustrated by
John Rocco.
Ostensibly coerced by his publisher (with "a year's supply of free pepperoni pizza, plus all the blue jelly beans I could eat") to write another volume (Percy Jackson's Greek Gods), Percy Jackson narrates this compilation of Greek hero myths. While not for scholarly readers, his jokey and colloquial voice keeps the immense, hefty, and lavishly illustrated tome from being overly grand. Reading list, websites. Ind.