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Gender Swapped Greek Myths
Gender Swapped Greek Myths
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Binding: Hardcover
Description: Thought - provoking and charmingly rendered. Guardian Imagine a world where seductive male sirens lure brave heroines to their death where Icara and her mother fly too close to the sun and where beautiful men are forced to wed underworld queens. For thousands of years Greek myths have been told and retold. In these stories brutality and bravery are reserved for men while women are wicked witches or helpless maidens. Today these myths continue to shape our ideas about justice tragedy and what makes a hero's journey. Karrie and Jonathan love these stories and have found a way to breathe new life into them by making one crucial change. Following the incredible success of Gender Swapped Fairy Tales they have taken that same simple step. They haven t rewritten the stories in this book. They haven t reimagined the endings or reinvented characters. What they have done is switch all the genders. You ll be enchanted by the refreshing world this swap creates and thunderstruck by the new characters you re about to discover.
Title: Gender Swapped Greek Myths
Author(s): Plackett Jonathan
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Barcode: 9780571371327
Pages: 208 Pages
Publication Date: 11/8/2022
Category: Classic Fiction (Children's / Teenage)
Description: Thought - provoking and charmingly rendered. Guardian Imagine a world where seductive male sirens lure brave heroines to their death where Icara and her mother fly too close to the sun and where beautiful men are forced to wed underworld queens. For thousands of years Greek myths have been told and retold. In these stories brutality and bravery are reserved for men while women are wicked witches or helpless maidens. Today these myths continue to shape our ideas about justice tragedy and what makes a hero's journey. Karrie and Jonathan love these stories and have found a way to breathe new life into them by making one crucial change. Following the incredible success of Gender Swapped Fairy Tales they have taken that same simple step. They haven t rewritten the stories in this book. They haven t reimagined the endings or reinvented characters. What they have done is switch all the genders. You ll be enchanted by the refreshing world this swap creates and thunderstruck by the new characters you re about to discover.
Title: Gender Swapped Greek Myths
Author(s): Plackett Jonathan
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Barcode: 9780571371327
Pages: 208 Pages
Publication Date: 11/8/2022
Category: Classic Fiction (Children's / Teenage)