Percy Jackson's Greek gods / Rick Riordan ; with a full-color insert of artwork by John Rocco.

By: Riordan, Rick [author.]Contributor(s): Rocco, John [illustrator.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Disney-Hyperion, 2016Copyright date: ©2014Edition: First paperback editionDescription: x, 404 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations ; 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781484712375Other title: Greek godsSubject(s): Jackson, Percy (Fictitious character) -- Juvenile fiction | Gods, Greek -- Juvenile fiction | Mythology, Greek -- Juvenile fictionGenre/Form: Fantasy fiction. DDC classification: 813.6
Contents:
Introduction -- The beginning and stuff -- The golden age of cannibalism -- The olympians bash some heads -- Zeus -- Hestia chooses bachelor number zero -- Demeter turns into grainzilla -- Persephone marries her stalker -- Hera gets a little cuckoo -- Hades does home improvement -- Poseidon gets salty -- Zeus kills everyone -- Athena adopts a handerkerchief -- You gotta love Aphrodite -- Ares, the manly man's manly man -- Hephaestus makes me a golden llama (not really, but he totally should) -- Apollo sings and dances and shoots people -- Artemis unleashes the death pig -- Hermes goes to juvie -- Dionysus conquers the world with a refreshing beverage -- Afterword.
Summary: "In Percy Jackson's Greek Gods, the son of Poseidon adds his own magic--and sarcastic asides--to the classics and gives readers his personal take on a who's who of the ancients, from Apollo to Zeus. If you like lots of lying, stealing, backstabbing, and cannibalism, then read on, because it definitely was a Golden Age for all that. Whether you are new to Greek mythology or well versed in it, this highly entertaining volume will make the ancient stories both relevant and impossible to forget"--P. [4] of cover.
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First hardcover edition, August 2014.

Introduction -- The beginning and stuff -- The golden age of cannibalism -- The olympians bash some heads -- Zeus -- Hestia chooses bachelor number zero -- Demeter turns into grainzilla -- Persephone marries her stalker -- Hera gets a little cuckoo -- Hades does home improvement -- Poseidon gets salty -- Zeus kills everyone -- Athena adopts a handerkerchief -- You gotta love Aphrodite -- Ares, the manly man's manly man -- Hephaestus makes me a golden llama (not really, but he totally should) -- Apollo sings and dances and shoots people -- Artemis unleashes the death pig -- Hermes goes to juvie -- Dionysus conquers the world with a refreshing beverage -- Afterword.

"In Percy Jackson's Greek Gods, the son of Poseidon adds his own magic--and sarcastic asides--to the classics and gives readers his personal take on a who's who of the ancients, from Apollo to Zeus. If you like lots of lying, stealing, backstabbing, and cannibalism, then read on, because it definitely was a Golden Age for all that. Whether you are new to Greek mythology or well versed in it, this highly entertaining volume will make the ancient stories both relevant and impossible to forget"--P. [4] of cover.

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