Customer Reviews

Hercules: The Man, the Myth, the Hero

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I love this book. The story of Hercules is so strange and wonderful and the pictures add a lot. Very beautiful, I highly recommend this book.

Relatively short, this beautifully illustrated version of the son of a God's battle to regain his honor is a good read for intermediate students. Serving the purpose of an introduction to Greek mythology, this book gives a well-rounded biography of "Hera's glory," Hercules. A series of these books done in the same style would have made it easier for teachers to design units on mythology for young children. The illustrations complement the text nicely, however because there is a lot of information on a single page, the picture cannot always tell enough. The text is set off from the illustration in a colorful, but easy to read manner. Some of the vocabulary and pronunciations will need to be explained and demonstrated, and probably should not have been included.

Why 3 stars?:
The illustrations are absolutely wonderful, unfortunately the text drags the books down. There is too much information on a single page. I do not support the condensing of myths, but this book would have been better if it focused on a single aspect of Hercules' life rather than trying to tell the whole thing in a picture book format. It's just too heavy.

I love this book! The book has lovely fight scenes. Very interesting book. I think this book would be great to teach the story of Hercules to your kids.

I just got this book and I love it. Hercules is so cool even though his life was so hard. I love the great pictures, some are scarry but so beautiful.

My nine year old daughter recieved this Hercules book as a present and both she and my ten year old son simply love it. My son has been drawing pictures based on the beautiful paintings daily and my daughter brought it to school to share it with her classmates. Congratulations to Lasky and Hess!

My son and I absolutely loved this retelling of the Hercules legend. Hercules himself describes the tale of his life and the tremendous courage it takes to control his mighty temper and super human strength. The paintings are truly beautiful and thrilling with wonderful fight scenes and gorgeous, evocative scenery. Hercules always wishs to do good but his evil step-mother Hera always tries to hurt him and his family. This book is a great lesson for children and adults alike in overcoming life's obstacles and never giving up.