Thursday, July 24, 2008

Pandora Gets Vain by Carolyn Hennesy - NO


Hennesy, Carolyn Pandora Gets Vain, 256 p (approx.). Bloomsbury, September 2008.

 NOT RECOMMENDED

A young Pandora has already let the evils from their box and is set the task of recapturing them all. Her quest to reclaim vanity is filled with obstacles and dangers and an encounter with the pre-teen Cleopatra.

 Talk about revisionist history and revisionist mythology! I couldn’t find one thing in this book that was back on established folklore or historic timelines. Yuck! Keep this away from your young students if you want them to have a single chance of learning the true patterns of the Greek mythos. Distract them with Mary Pope Osborne’s retellings instead.

Cindy Mitchell – Library-Teacher

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