This beautifully illustrated short picture book starts with Chaos, quickly outlines the birth of the gods (Titans and Olympians) and the war between them, and then spends a page or two introducing each Olympian god and providing synopses of or allusions to some of their most well-known stories. The intricate illustrations on each page also allude to the gods’ stories and symbols, providing incentive for attentive readers to look further for full explanations. Two caveats: First, the depictions of the gods and goddesses are overwhelmingly white and blond. Consider following up with more accurate pictorial representations that include the cultural diversity of the ancient Mediterranean. Second, this is not a storybook. Readers looking to sit down with a set of fully-articulated stories will not find that this book satisfies that need. However there is no shortage of lengthy favorite storybooks, starting with, but not limited to, D’Aulaires’. Instead, this book fires up young readers’ imaginations so that they go looking for those longer titles.  — Nava Cohen

* For further information on the Our Mythical Childhood Survey, please refer to the website of the project “Our Mythical Childhood” [link: http://omc.obta.al.uw.edu.pl/], led by Prof. Katarzyna Marciniak at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales,” University of Warsaw, Poland, with the participation of Bar Ilan University, University of New England, University of Roehampton, University of Yaoundé 1, and other affiliated scholars, within the funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme (grant agreement No 681202).