Warwick HuttonRecensioni

The dust jacket says the text is based on the King James version of the Bible. It starts at the beginning, but after God creates the sun, moon, and stars, the Lord God forms man and puts him in the Garden of Eden. Adam names the animals there and the Lord God then makes Eve.for no particular reason. The man and woman, called his wife, are shown naked together with some animals. The serpent tempts the woman, we see her eating a multicolored fruit, while her husband looks at the fruit with a puzzled expression. The Lord God looks for Adam, who, along with his wife explain what happened. God says how he will punish them. Adam names his wife Eve and they are banished.
In other words, the story is pretty much what is in the Bible except for the last few days of creation in the first chapter. But this means the first creation of Adam as made in God's image, male and female, is missing, along with the blessings and saying that any part of creation is good.½

This book is a Greek myth about Perseus who is brave and determined. The myth is simplified, so it can be more easily understood by young readers. With the help of the goddess Athene and god Hermes, he saves his mother from cruel and selfish King Polydectes. The luminous watercolor paintings help tell the story. This would be a good book to introduce elementary school children to Greek mythology.

This book told the story of Jonah and the fish in a very simple way that is easy to understand through all ages. The book had many bright and colorful pictures and had small words, making this book perfect for read a aloud in the classroom. This is traditional literature because of the parable told throughout it. The moral of this story from the bible is to follow God under all circumstances because he knows what is best for you. God made you in a specific way do to deeds that he has asked for you to do. I only gave the book four stars because it was very abrupt at times, and changed scenes very rapidly.

Odysseus and his men encounter a Cyclops on the way home , when their ship is taken to an unknown island. The Cyclops was evil and ate some of the Greek men.
With the help of Odysseus' intelligent plan they punished the Cyclops and tricked him into setting the rest of them free.

Summary:
The king of the Egypt alarmed people of Israel are dangerous to this country so he decreed all boy babies born to Hebrew women should be killed. Then there was a Hebrew family which the mother born a new baby boy and she wanted to protect him. So she made a little ark of bulrushes to put the baby in after three month. The baby was hid in the ark and rushed by the river edge and the baby's sister stood a little way off to see what would happen to the baby. A daughter of the king found that baby and took a pity on him. Then the baby's sister came to her and told her she could find a nurse for that baby. Then the baby's real mother became his nurse until he grew up and she brought him back to the king's daughter and she adopted him as her son. The boy was given a name as "Moses", who grew to be a man to led the children of Israel out of Egypt. Moses was a man of God and lived to be 120 years old.

Genre:
This book is a non-fiction biography book. It talks about the history of Moses, a famous person in the bible. Everything in this book was based on the bible story which happened thousand years ago.

Critiques:
1. This is good book to know about bible history. The book is in a clear and elegant language style to tell the story of Moses. As a biography, this book is not boring at all with the nice plot.
2. The illustration of this book id in color pencil, which makes the texture of the book very soft.
3.It will be suitable for pre-school students to read and listened.

Comments in use:
It's a good book for reading aloud.
Before read this book, teacher can ask students discuss about what they have heard about Moses since they might have known this story before from their parents.

Moses in the Bulrushes is a historical picture book, which gives us a story about Moses who is a disciple of God. This story is from Bible and tells the whole life of Moses who was born in a poor family and his mother tried to protect he and finally he is luckily found by Egypt princess and adopted by she. When Moses grew up, he became a man of God and rescued the child of Israel.
The arts in this book are pencil and water-colored, which give a vivid story from Bible to Children.
Usage: I will use this book for primary 3-5 grade students and teach them a story from Bible, which can let them know more about Christian history.

I liked this book mainly because of the way how the story was told. The story was told much differently than what I have read before or observed. The language is different, and I think that is a great thing, because it will allow students to truly read the story of the beauty and the beast, and not focus on the Disney movie. Specifically, I did not know personally that beauty had two sisters, and that her father was staying in the castle. It is amazing how literature can go off in so many different tangents, and still be relevant to our lives. The language, imagery, and form were fantastic. Fairytales like this truly make students compare and contrast differences of what they believe is true, and what they observe to be "true."

SUMMARY
A merchant escapes a storm by entering a stranger's house. As he leaves, he attempts to take a rose. The owner of the house, a beast, is angered and forces the merchant to bring back one of his daughters or die. His daughter Beauty agrees to stay at the house with the beast. Although she does not like him at first, her feelings grow. When Beauty sees her father is sick, he allows her to return home with a ring. Beauty agrees to only stay a week so the beast will not die. Beauty is distracted by her sisters and stays longer than planned. When she returns to the house, she finds the beast dying. When she tells him she will marry him, she breaks an evil spell and he transforms into a prince.

REVIEW
This version of the story definitely strays from the classic Disney story that most people are familiar with. I like that the main players are Beauty's family and the beast. There are no supporting characters like the servants or Gaston in the movie version. I also appreciated that the motif of the rose was still involved. In this story, the merchant picks a flower to take back to Beauty, ultimately leading Beauty to be imprisoned. I also think that the simple watercolor drawings added to the simplicity o the story.

I really like this retelling of the original story, because it is easy for children to understand. The illustrations are also brilliant.

English illustrator and author Warwick Hutton - whose work I have encountered before, in Susan Cooper's The Silver Cow: A Welsh Tale and The Selkie Girl - here turns his hand to both illustration and authorship, presenting an adaptation of the classic French fairy-tale, Beauty and the Beast. A fairly straightforward version of the story, textually speaking - the merchant with three daughters, the fateful journey in which Beauty's father encounters the Beast, Beauty's self-sacrifice, and the gradual process whereby she comes to care for the Beast, are all covered - is paired with Hutton's distinctive watercolor illustrations, producing an engaging picture-book retelling.

I cannot say, in all honesty, that Hutton's artwork appeals to me greatly - I tend to find it more interesting than beautiful - but I was much struck by a few images here, such as the one in which the merchant discovers the Beast's palace, seen at a distance, down a long lane of windswept trees. Fans of the artist, by contrast, will probably find many pleasing vistas in this particular Beauty and the Beast, and it is to them, and to readers interested in comparing different adaptations of the tale, that I recommend it.

Stories like this one can get the imagination going and spark the young critical thinker. The reader learns the ancient myth of how the seasons came about. The illustrations are very nice, ink and watercolor. They resemble ancient greek drawings and color palates. The message isn't immediately clear, there is no moral or answer, but it is something which will stick in one's mind, which I think is the value of myths.

summary: Perseus and his mother were found in a chest in the ocean. The king thought Perseus' mother was so beautiful that he wanted to keep her to himself but she wanted nothing to do with him. Perseus grew and the king sent him off to fetch Medusa's head in exchange for the kind to leave Perseus's mother alone. This was an impossible task but the gods came to Perseus in the night and gave him strict instructions of how to fetch the head of Medusa. Perseus successfully retrieved Medusa's head and as he returned he saved a girl. Perseus returned to the kingdom and the head of Medusa turned the king and his followers to stone. Perseus saved his mother from the king and he married the woman he saved.

classroom connection: This book could be used in the classroom in studying Greek mythology.

Odysseus and his men explore an island to find a cave. They get trapped in the cave by Cyclops and threaten to eat them all. Then they give him wine, he passes out so they poked out his eye. To escape they hide under the sheep to escape the cave.

I enjoy this version more than the Disney version, because the beast is gentle and not deemed as a "villain." It's important that children see a love story about friendship, with a message of empathy and compassion.

Great story line. I like the morals of keeping promises and everything has consquences that you do in your life. However, I'm not a big fan of the artwork. I think it was too vague for the storey. It could use more details to help draw children into it.

Beauty and the Beast is a classical book about a young girl who goes off to live with a beast so that her father could live. She grows to be happy living with the beast until her father gets sick. She goes to visit him and she has a dream about the beast so she returns to his palace, where she finds him almost dead. Once she promises to marry him he turns into a prince.

I relate to this book because at one point in my life I felt like a beast but it took a wonderful guy to make me realize I was not a beast. This story is about how the beast made Beauty feel happy and how looks are not everything, and I like Beauty, realized that too.

I can use this book to show students how looks are not everything, it is the heart that makes the person and how important it is to put family before you, I might use this in a lesson about family and love. and also to show students how good people received good things.

This Ancient Greek myth is also a pourquoi tale explaining how summer and winter came to be. Lonely Hades searches the earth for a wife because no woman wants to live in the dark, desolate underworld willingly. He finds Persephone, daughter of the goddess Demeter, and steals her away to the underworld. Both Persephone and Demeter stop eating out of despair, and Demeter also stops making the plants and flowers grow. Zeus intervenes, sending Hermes to tell Hades that if Persephone has not eaten, she must be sent back to her mother. Hades tells Zeus that Persephone ate six pomegranate seeds. Because of this, Zeus decrees that Persephone is to be returned to her mother now, but must go and live with Hades for six months every year. The six months that she is with Hades marks the fall and winter seasons as Demeter neglects her duties out of grief. Spring and summer are marked by Persephone's return to her mother.

The story was simply told, making it easy for young children to understand, and the watercolor illustrations go well with the story. The characters are introduced in accordance with their positions in Greek mythology: Zeus as chief of all the gods, Poseidon as the god of the seas, Hades as the god of the underworld, Demeter as the goddess of growing things, and Hermes as the messenger. It makes for interesting pourquoi tale, as well as an introduction into Greek mythology. Appropriate for ages three and up.

In this retelling of the old Greek myth, the story is followed faithfully, the people of Athens sending maidens and young men to appease the Minotaur, who is the Creten kings monstrous son. Theseus, who is the prince of Athens, decides he will go and try to kill the Minotaur. But before he can try, the king of Crete, Minos, claims one of the young girls for his own and only if Theseus finds the ring that Minos has thrown into the sea, can he save the young woman. He succeeds and not only saves the maiden but wins the heart of Minos' daughter, Ariadne. Ariadne helps him kill the Minotaur and rescue the young people being held for the monster. In the end, because Theseus forgets to raise the sail showing his success, his father falls over a cliff in sorrow. Theseus builds a monument to his father, names the Sea for him, and rules in his place. The illustrations in this book, water colors, are delicate and bring the story to life.

This book was just ok. I thought that the author should have added a little more information to the story. The book was pretty short and did not grab my intrest.

Traditional Fantasy - This is a story about revenge and war. The Greeks and the Trojans went to war against each other after the wife of King Sparta of Greece runs away with the son of the king of Troy. After ten years of fighting the Greeks appear to abandon the fight leaving behind a giant statue of a horse. The Trojans believing the horse to be a good omen bring it into their city. That night the Greeks poured out of the belly of the horse to attack the Trojans and win the war.

As I child I read my dad’s books of the “classics” and this was one of the stories I read. I was fascinated by the fact that two countries would go to war because one man was wronged by another man, and that thousands of people would die. I also learned a lesson about being patient and not rushing things. After all it took the Greeks ten years to win the war.

As a classroom extension I would have my students recreate the story by drawing a before, during, and after, storyboard of the events that took place in the story. I would also have the students discuss the value of being patient and the consequences of taking a “gift horse” or something for free.

The story of beauty and the beast is about a merchant that has three daughters. He goes to the port to but on his way home from the port he got lost in the woods and finds a castle. The castle has food set out for one. Then he sleeps in one of the rooms. The next morning he is leaving and he takes some roses. The Beast sees him and tells him that he got them for his daughter. He has to bring one of his daughters back that want to come and stay. His daughter that is named beauty is the one that came back to stay with him. She goes home and her two sisters are jealous of her. She is giving a ring before she leaves that will take her back to the castle when she is ready to come back.

My reaction to the story was that it was a lot different then the beauty and the beast the Disney movie. The book still had some magical elements and I liked that about the book.

You could use this book to show kids in the class room that the appearance of people does not make you know that the person is bad. You could have the class draw a picture of what they would like the ring to take them to when they toke it off.

Brief retelling of the story of the Trojan Horse. Not totally accurate, but a good introduction. I probably wouldn't buy it, but it would be worth reading as part of a child's study of Ancient Greece.

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