Thor's Wedding Day

3 1/2 stars. Fairly amusing, but not amazing. Probably great for late elementary kids as it was heavy on silly humor. It was quite short though (3 hours at normal speed), so it was easy to add to the end of a roadtrip.......more

I picked this up at the library in audiobook format thinking it was something completely different. It's in a DVD-style case, and the cover illustration suggested to me that it was a silly little animated short. I was wrong. It's actually an excellent retelling of the Þrymskviða (Thrymskvida), a sho......more

Bruce Coville is an incredibly talented writer, and one of my favorite authors. He writes for kids, which is good for kids, but not so great for adults who are missing out on his works. This book can easily be read in an afternoon, but that doesn't mean it isn't good -- just brief. Because of it's sh......more

Gr. 4-7. Coville takes a Norse poem called the Thrymskvitha and turns it into a delightful prose romp. The story centers on the theft of Mjollnir, the god Thor's magical war hammer, by the giant Thrym. Without the hammer, the gods are vulnerable to an attack from the giants, which means that Thor wi......more

Listed as the only humorous part of the Norse myth of Ragnarok, this children’s book tells what happened after Thor’s magnificent hammer Mjollnir was stolen and the outrageous lengths that were taken to get it back. The cross-dressing scenes are funny though Loki’s constant urge to play pranks can ge......more