Look inside ...    The Odyssey for Boys and Girls by Alfred J. Church Lively retelling of Homer's Odyssey, telling of the wanderings of Ulysses and his adventures with the giant Cyclops and the enchantress Circe as he makes his way home to his beloved Ithaca. There, after slaying the suitors who have been wooing his wife Penelope, he is reunited with his family after twenty long years.  Ages 8-12 168 pages $11.95

Table of Contents

Front Matter

The Cyclops
Of the Home of the Winds and of Circe
Of the Sirens and Other Wonders
Of What Happened in Ithaca
How Telemachus Went To Look for His Father
How Telemachus Saw Nestor
How Telemachus Came to Sparta
Menelaus's Story
How Ulysses Came to the Phaeacians
Nausicaa
Alcinous
Ulysses among the Phaeacians
Ithaca
Eumaeus
Ulysses and His Son
Of the Dog Argus and Other Things
Of the Beggar Irus and Other Things
How Ulysses Was Made Known
The Trial of the Bow
The Slaying of the Suitors
At Last
Of Laertes
How There Was Peace between Ulysses and his People