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Persephone and the pomegranate

a myth from Greece
1993
Presents the Greek myth in which Demeter refuses to allow spring to appear until she has been reunited with her daughter Persephone, who has been abducted to the Underworld by Pluto.

Let's go, Pegasus!

2006
An illustrated retelling of the Greek myth in which Perseus appeals to the Gods for help when a mean king orders him to go kill Medusa.

Age of bronze

2004
The author presents a graphic novel about the story and legend of the Trojan War combining archaeological evidence of the Late Bronze Age with the legendary stories of Helen of Troy.

King Midas

with selected sentences in American sign language
1990
Presents the classic tale of the king who wished that everything he touched would turn to gold. Line drawing depict selected sentences in American Sign language.

Strangers dark and gold

1975
Recounts the Greek myth of Jason, his search with the Argonauts for the Golden Fleece, and the final tragedy resulting from Medea's love for him.

Cupid and Psyche

a love story
1976
The Greek god of love, Cupid, falls in love with the beautiful mortal, Psyche.

Quiver

2005
Sixteen-year-old Atalanta, abandoned as an infant, has grown into a renowned archer, and the fastest mortal in the land, so when her father issues her an ultimatum that she must marry and produec an heir, she counters with the condition the one she marries must beat her in a footrace.

Radiant darkness

2009
Persephone runs off to the Underworld with Hades, with whom she has fallen in love, but when her mother Demeter takes out her grief on thousands of peasants, Persephone agrees to come back once a year to visit her mother and to bring spring back to Earth.

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