

Perseus
Author: Geraldine McCaughrean
Narrator: Cynthia Bishop
Unabridged: 3 hr 29 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Full Cast Audio
Published: 01/01/2011
Categories: Children's Fiction, Fairy Tales
Author: Geraldine McCaughrean
Narrator: Cynthia Bishop
Unabridged: 3 hr 29 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Full Cast Audio
Published: 01/01/2011
Categories: Children's Fiction, Fairy Tales
Geraldine McCaughrean is an award-winning author who has written more than 130 books and plays for children and adults. She recently won the Whitbread Children's Book Award for the third time with Not the End of the World, and her other awards include the Carnegie Medal, the Guardian Fiction Award, and the Smarties Bronze Award. She lives in Berkshire, England. Visit www.geraldinemccaughrean.co.uk.
The 8YO and I read this in chapters at bedtime. He liked Perseus WAY better than Theseus! Both as a book and as a person. At times the writing is a bit overwrought and hard for a young child to follow, but nothing a little editing on the fly while reading aloud can't fix, and to be fair the book is......more
This skewed to a lower grade level than I had hoped (early middle school). While Perseus's myth has always been a bit problematic for me, I appreciated McCaughrean's language and attempt to add details to a pretty straightforward myth. However, some issues, like love at first sight, the heightened s......more