Disney's Hercules: Classic Storybook (The Mouse Works Classics Collection)

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Bloomsbury High Low books encourage and support reading practice by providing gripping, age-appropriate and illustrated stories for struggling and reluctant readers, those with dyslexia, or those with English as an additional language (EAL). Dejanira, thinking it was a good opportunity to try her love spell, soaked the robe in the blood of Nessus. He who conquered all else is not to be conquered by those flames which you see blazing on Mount Oeta. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

The text strengths include beautiful illustrations and in thinking of the target audience I appreciated the direct approach the author takes in describing each stage of his life. Lately I was particularly taken with a trilogy of books by DiCamillo: Raymie Nightingale, Louisiana’s Way Home, and Beverly Right Here. Science, history and fairy tale unite in Humphrey, Albert, and the Flying Machine by Kathryn Lasky, illus. And here's hoping that in future volumes, the Myths and Legends scope will be broadened to, for example, Native American myths and legends, particularly the antics of Coyote and other tricksters, as well as any other non-Western mythology.

The humour will be popular with the target audience and it dripfeeds in some important facts and stories from Greek mythology. Walt Disney Productions established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into live-action film production, television, and travel.

I give it five stars because it was stuck to the Hercules stories and didn't go into any mind numbing background details. Turner (Dust for Dinner) takes readers to a Civil War battlefield in this disturbing picture book narrated by an idealistic 13-year-old. With bonus bits at the back of the book, including reading notes and exciting facts, these are perfect for sparking discussion and engaging young readers. The story follows Tim who is doing his best to help his Mum makes ends meet, when he accidentally smashes an Ancient Greek vase and possibly the most valuable thing they own. He was the father of the Hesperides, and Hercules wondered if anyone could find the apples and bring them to him.In recent years, then, I have read a lot of the works of people like Katherine Paterson, Kate DiCamillo, Kwame Alexander, Jarrett Krosoczka, and my friend and colleague Gary D.