I’ve Written A Children’s Book Retelli...

I’ve written a kids’s e book retelling Greek Myths for Scholastic UK! 

Hello associates!

Huge information!

I’ve poured my coronary heart and soul into writing my debut kids’s e book for 9-12 12 months olds, Greek Myths, Folktales & Legends for the largest kids’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 size of analysis and the dedication to writing every of the 20 myths, into cinematic tales kids will hopefully love.

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

While the e book 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 light-weight aid to those much-loved legendary tales (unearthing many lesser identified 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 era 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 e book Mumboss… Scholastic UK approached my (wonderful and vastly supportive) literary agent Jo Bell, of Bell Lomax Moreton, enquiring if she represented any writers who have been initially Greek to put in writing a Greek Myths e book 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 preferred as I used to be then commissioned to put in writing the e book! 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 beginning of my third baby and given me artistic goal daily.

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 data:

This e book compromises of 20 traditional Greek myths retold in an accessible and interesting 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’ll be able to speak about different tales within the assortment too)
* Nice for youths who’re studying about Greek mythology in school, but additionally enjoyable and interesting for individuals who aren’t acquainted with the myths.
* Every story has just a little 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 might have got here from, serving to to present informative, child-friendly historic context.)

Somewhat about me for anybody new right here:

Cowl is superbly illustrated by Paula Zorite.

You’ll be able to try some extracts under!

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

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