D'Aulaire's Book of Greek Myths

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Bana Yunan Mitleri'ni anlatan kitaplar verin ve kendi halime bırakın. O kadar seviyorum. Aynı şeyleri defalarca okuyabilecek kadar hemde. Yunan mitolojisinde ölümlüler Tanrılara nasıl tapıyorsa Tanrılarda Toprak Ana'ya öyle saygı gösteriyorlardı çünkü Toprak Ana bütün hayatın kaynağıydı. Ve bu kitapta da Toprak Ana'nın ilk çocuklarından başlayarak, Tanrıların çocuklarını, Prometheus'un neden cezalandırıldığını, Pandoranın kutusunu, Hades ile Persephone'nin hikayesini ( ki kendisi her zaman en sevdiğim kısım olmuştur) ve daha nicelerini okuyoruz.

Now updated with a new cover and an afterword featuring never-before-published drawings from the sketchbook of Ingri and Edgar D'Aulaire, plus an essay about their life and work and photos from the family achive. Elimdeki bu baskı Yunan Mitleri'nin gençler için olan sadeleştirilmiş baskısı ve içinde birbirinden muhteşem çizimler var. Okumanın yanında o çizimleri incelerken geçen vaktin farkına varmıyorsunuz, hele de benim gibi her detayı inceliyorsanız.

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Earlier in their career as creators of children’s books, the D’Aulaires wrote about a different set of myths—of the American variety. Most of their first books were set in Scandinavia, where Ingri D’Aulaire grew up, but soon they moved their focus across the Atlantic, to their new home. In 1936, they wrote a biography of George Washington and in 1939 one of Abraham Lincoln, for which they won the Caldecott Medal. They would write about Pocahontas, Benjamin Franklin, Buffalo Bill, and Christopher Columbus, all before they wrote anything about Greek myths.

I doubt I would have grown up to be the writer and artist I became had I not fallen in love with D’Aulaire’s Book of Greek Myths at the age of seven."—R. J. Palacio, author of WonderBen altını satır satır çizerek, büyük keyif alarak okudum. Çok derinlemesine bir inceleme beklemeyin dediğim gibi sadeleştirilmiş bir baskı bu ama daha önce hiç okumadıysanız ve ilginizi çekiyorsa keyif alacağınızı düşünüyorum. This attention to detail, combined with their sense of scope, is as important to their books as their illustrations. Their research process was possibly even more arduous. They would spend hundreds of hours reading, traveling and sketching before they even started writing or creating their illustrations. When they wrote about Christopher Columbus, they traveled through Italy, Spain and Portugal to see the places he had lived and toured the Caribbean islands he landed on when he crossed the ocean. While researching Lincoln, they sketched dozens of the faces they found in old photographs at the Springfield library and used them to fill in the crowds of people in their drawings. Here are the greats of ancient Greece—gods and goddesses, heroes and monsters—as freshly described in words and pictures as if they were alive today. I -- Io: I liked her punishment from Hera, being turned into a cow, but I don't think it is fair for just having been with Zeus. It's not like Hera punished Zeus. It's Zeus who came down to earth, not the other way around.

Columbus’ story gets treated even more like a fairytale. “There once was a boy/who loved the salty sea,” it begins.A -- Apollo: He is the god of music, so I kind of like his music. I know that I haven't heard it, but I can tell it is probably pretty good. And I like that even with that guy with the bones of that instrument that didn't work upside down, I love how he beat that guy.

It was the beginning of the end of my religiosity and the penultimate blow to my catholicism. It was the end of my acquiescence to unjust authority. It was the end of acceptance without questions. It catalysed my constant search for understanding. It was the beginning of my father's disdain for me, and his fear of my mind (the latter, I've always suspected, was close to the root of much of the abuse I suffered at his hands). It was the moment of my enlightenment. And I've loved this book deeply from the second I first closed its cover until today. In print for over fifty years, D'Aulaires Book of Greek Myths has introduced generations to Greek mythology—and continues to enthrall young readers. M -- Minotaur: He is a cool kind of creature. I like how he is all half-bull / half-man. It's interesting the way he was created. He's also, at times, pretty stupid. He isn't all that smart for a guy with a big head. I think it would be cool if there was a real version of that.P -- Prometheus: I liked how he saved other people and risked his own life just to warm up the humans by stealing fire from the hearth in the throne room. It was not such a good idea, but it was smart to keep people alive longer. I don't think he is one of those people who kills things just to stay alive, but someone who risks his life to save others. He was a cool guy. G -- Gorgons: Their powers are sweet! It's cool how connected they are to statues, like life-sized garden gnomes out of people. It was awesome the way Perseus used Medusa's head to kill the monster that would kill his wife. I finished reading it to our twins last night. To hear them talk today, they are in love with the book themselves, though I doubt it can be felt as deeply as my love for the book. We encourage them to think for themselves, to question, to seek, to demand that authority earns respect, so their experience with the book isn't as revelatory as mine. They have parents who've been answering their questions -- about gods, life, death, where babies come from, about anything -- since they were asking questions. They haven't needed to find that power for themselves, we've pointed the way to that power from the start. Still, they love this book, and I hope they share it with their kids (if they choose to have kids) in turn. Book Genre: Childrens, Classics, Cultural, Fantasy, Fiction, Greece, Greek Mythology, Mythology, Picture Books, Religion, Young Adult F -- Fates: The ones who said they knew the future, the ones who knew when people were going to die.