Greek/ Roman legends for 10 year old

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DD2 is very keen on all things ancient: it started with lovely Walker illustrated Greek Myths and moved through Roman Mysteries and is now looking for more. She thinks she wants Homer but I am not so sure!

I have tracked down an old Roger Lancelyn Green Tale of Troy but wondered if anyone had any other, more recently published books to suggest...

Thanks

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[epsombooks]

Hi

Usborne do some great books :

Greek Myths and Legends - £7.99
Greek and Norse Legends - £9.99

For others look on
www.usborneonline.org/bevhorkan

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Thanks for that suggestion. They are lovely but perhaps a bit young for her: we already have assorted similar books. She is going to be 10 soon so I was looking for one step on from these. Any other ideas?

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[LadyGlencoraPalliser]

DD1 (11) got this for Christmas and loved it.

[LadyGlencoraPalliser]

For the Iliad and the Odyssey, Rosemary Sutcliff did fantastic versions Black Ships before Troy and Wanderings of Odysseus
Illustrated by Allan Lee too. You must get them.

[roisin]

These are books based on greek/roman myths.

Percy Jackson books are great: rip-roaring adventure, but loads of info about Greek mythology thrown in as background too. My boys love them! I think there are 4 in the series now.

Troy by Adele Geras also Ithaka same author.

Corydon is fun and was co-written by a 9-yr-old and his mum! There are sequels too.

[librarymice]

I would definitely recommend the Percy Jackson books which are brilliant. There is a podcast of it available on the Puffin Podcast website at the moment too: thepuffinpodcast.typepad.com/puffinpodcast/.
I would however beware of Troy; it is very explicit and is a 14+ in most libraries.

[Threadworrm]

There are brilliant versions of the iliad and the odyssey by Barbara Leonie Picard. My DS2 loved reading them (I loved them too).

They omit some of the dull bits (the long list in the iliad of who brought which ships and how many, etc) and are lucidly written. But they don't talk down at all.

Corydon is a bit dire I think.

[LadyGlencoraPalliser]

Agree about Troy, it is excellent, but very graphic and too disturbing for a 10-year-old IMO. There are some lovely novels by Rosemary Sutcliff and Henry Treece that deal with the ancient world though like Sutcliff's The Flowers of Adonis and The Truce of the Games.
She might like Geoffrey Trease's The Crownof Violet for instance, though you will have to get it secondhand on Abebooks or similar.

[Marina]

I must look out some of these Greek-themed books (Treece and Sutcliff perhaps, as ds is nine and found The Eagle of the Ninth too daunting) He has scoffed all of Percy Jackson - huge recommendation here too - and still has fond memories of Atticus the Storyteller - which I think is also a bit young for your dd2 now, pofaced.

[LadyGlencoraPalliser]

Marina, if he found The Eagle of the Ninth too daunting you could try him with Henry Treece's Legions of the Eagle which is easier going.

[Marina]

Oh, you star, I think I might recommend that for my Latin Club mob as well
Curiously I never got in to Henry Treece as a child

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Thanks everyone... I've just logged in again and seen all these suggestions: most welcome!

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Oh yes, what a good idea - Latiny books.

Ds has just started Actual Serious Latin at school (Cambridge Latin course) & is totally loving it (despite having come in a year late & all the other boys having had a year of Minimus fun). He has to have reading books from home ... this is school's way of creating a sober atmosphere in the classroom before registration - they are all meant to stick their noses in a worthy book (with not even a teacher in the room). This suits ds rather well, but he has, one month in, re-read all the Alex Riders, and all the Grks, and is now re-reading the Agent Zs; and I won't let him take in Molesworth or 1066 & All That, because the hilarity factor is not exactly conducive to sober learning-ambience.

But Treece & Trease: oh yes.

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A completely propos, if bonkers - may I just observe that dh thought it was a nice idea to read me selections out of Pliny's letters while I was in labour with ds.