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Greek myths retold for a very young audience; Theseus is described as a good king for listening to his mum, and Medea as wicked and naughty.

Parts of this are outdated but my younger self would have still found these stories fun and engaging. Here there‘s adventures, a little bit of magic, monsters to fight, some quirky characters and heroic deeds. When the book ended I wanted it to carry on and tell me more stories.

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In this poem Hawthorne is musings on what it would be like to see into the future. Then decides it would not be worth it.

All the boys, all the girls
All that matters in the world🎶

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Took me 14 years to get to this book. I bought it from Hay-on-Wye on my first visit May 2003. The tales are well-told sugar-coated Greek myths. Wouldn't read to a child because girls are all vain and weak and mischievous and rather redundant while boys are heroic. But it worked as a refresher for Greek mythology.