"The Gods and Goddesses of Olympus" | Book Blog 10

Title: The Gods and Goddesses of Olympus

Author: Aliki

Illustrator: Aliki

Genre: Traditional Literature

Publisher: HarperCollins

Copyright: 1994

Pages: 48

     This book tells the story of all the Greek gods and goddesses on a primary level. It starts from the very beginning telling the story of how the gods and goddesses that we hear about came to be and ends with some of the familiar stories that we may have heard. For students that have never heard stories of Greek gods and goddesses this book would be a great introduction. 

     The illustrations in this book remind me of Greek vase paintings and sculptures. The illustrations look to be a mixture of pencil and paint and are very colorful and etherial. Within the book there is a sketch of each of the 12 major gods and goddesses.

     I would like to use this book in a fifth grade classroom. I think a great activity to do after reading this book would be to let students create their own modern day greek god or goddess.  A way to incorporate technology into this lesson would be to use the website Storyboard That to show the story of the god or goddess that they have created. Students could come up with a name for their god or goddess, a symbol, a domain, a power, a weakness, and a backstory.