I’ve Written A Children’s Book Retelling Greek Myths!

I’ve written a youngsters’s ebook retelling Greek Myths for Scholastic UK! 

Hello pals!

Large information!

I’ve poured my coronary heart and soul into writing my debut youngsters’s ebook for 9-12 12 months olds, Greek Myths, Folktales & Legends for the largest youngsters’s publishers worldwide no much less: Scholastic, and their UK arm Scholastic UK, over the previous 12 months, a lot so, it has felt like cramming a Classics diploma into one 12 months, such was the dimensions of analysis and the dedication to writing every of the 20 myths, into cinematic tales youngsters will hopefully love.

Greek myths are seminal works, massively influencing storytelling inspiring Shakespeare, Hollywood and past.

While the ebook is for youngsters, and particularly displays the UK curriculum, I additionally wrote it with dad and mom in thoughts, bringing drama, excessive stakes, tragedy and lightweight aid to those much-loved legendary tales (unearthing many lesser recognized folktales within the course of too). I’ve retold the myths with extra of a feminist and egalitarian perspective, reflecting my very own values and modernising them to really feel empowering, while making them relatable and inspirational to this subsequent technology of younger readers. I couldn’t be extra excited to share my ‘new child’ with the world in September.

For these intrigued on how this chance took place, 7 years after I wrote my debut non-fiction ebook Mumboss… Scholastic UK approached my (wonderful and massively supportive) literary agent Jo Bell, of Bell Lomax Moreton, enquiring if she represented any writers who had been initially Greek to jot down a Greek Myths ebook as a part of their Basic collection. Different books within the collection span Irish, Welsh, Norse, East Asian African and Carribean folktales, myths and legends, all written by authors of the ethnicity linked to the subject material.

I used to be requested to submit a 3000 phrases draft reimagining the story of Medusa which they appreciated as I used to be then commissioned to jot down the ebook! What an honour it’s been too and for the writer who has introduced so many beloved books to the world from the Tom Gates, Horrible Histories and Science collection, His Darkish Supplies and The Starvation Gameds amongst many others!

It’s been such an exhilarating and stimulating 12 months of writing for me, it’s helped me rediscover my voice after the delivery of my third little one and given me artistic objective day by day.

I hope with all of my coronary heart thata you take pleasure in it as a lot as I’ve writing it.

Please preorder from HERE!

Extra information:

This ebook compromises of 20 traditional Greek myths retold in an accessible and fascinating method, as a part of the Scholastic Classics assortment which introduces new generations to timeless tales, repackaged particularly for youthful readers.
* Acquainted favorite in addition to much less well-known tales.
* Vary from The Midas Contact and The Fall of Icarus to the tragic story of Persephone and courageous feminine warriors in The Story of Atalanta. (based mostly on the content material you’re doing, you may speak about different tales within the assortment too)
* Nice for youths who’re studying about Greek mythology at college, but in addition enjoyable and fascinating for many who aren’t conversant in the myths.
* Every story has a little bit introduction which tells you a enjoyable reality about one thing to do with the parable.
* Every story has a “ethical of the parable” which tells the reader a bit about the place the story could have got here from, serving to to offer informative, child-friendly historic context.)

A little bit about me for anybody new right here:

Cowl is fantastically illustrated by Paula Zorite.

You’ll be able to take a look at some extracts beneath!

Don’t neglect to pre-order so the ebook will attain you first on Sept tenth, with a publication date of the eleventh!

Hyperlink right here: https://linktr.ee/greek_myths