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    Greek Mythology Site - Awesome!
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    http://www.theoi.com/

    Love, love, love this site!
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    Perfect timing! We're talking about Greek gods this week. Thank you! smile
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    You're welcome. This site is gorgeous! Detailed, references real Greek texts, provides Latin translation and gorgeous photos of statues, flowers and maps - best I've seen for everything Classical Greek in one place. Just fabulous!
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    It's wierd, we were just talking about trying to find something and poof! there you are.

    Timing is everything! Thanks!

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    Wow! Great find- thanks for sharing! My daughter's going to LOVE this!!!!
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    Ah - sometimes the universe works in mysterious ways - because I wasn't even looking - just found it by chance via Wikipedia - and I don't even remember why I was there.....

    My Classics teacher would LOVE this ...

    If anyone finds something similar for Egyptology or Japanese fairytales - please let me know. In fact - I think I was looking up Bakugun toys - and came across Baku- mythical Japnese creature - ....I'm trying to phase into the next part of Susan's Bauer's 1st grade reading list ..can you tell???
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    Thanks IronMom - this is great! We've been reading Greek and Norse myths the last few weeks. Must be something in the air...
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    Do you have some Norse Myth suggestions for books etc.
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    Originally Posted by IronMom
    Do you have some Norse Myth suggestions for books etc.

    Well... not really. I just picked up one from the library "Favorite Norse Myths" as retold by Mary Pope Osborne. I figured since the kid loves Magic Tree House books, he'd probably like this too. And he does, but I wouldn't say it's the best version. It's pretty good though, but more like "norse-myth lite." (and actually for DS5 it's great.) Kriston, any ideas?

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    D'Aulaire's is the most well-known, and I like it. It's a bit cleaned up for kids, but it might be a bit too violent for a really sensitive young child. If fairy tales are too scary, D'Aulaire's myths are probably too scary. Our library has a great version of this one with lovely artwork that I like. It's the one I read to my Viking enrichment classes.

    The other popular one that I've seen used a lot is the Osborne one. I haven't read that one, so I don't know how it would be for sensitive readers, just in case that's a concern.

    Those would be the two I'd look for. smile


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