Anne Terry White excels as a storyteller.  Her adaptions of myths are literature in their own right; while some myth collections recount tales in a textbook style, she weaves tales with expertise.  Moreover, because this large book contains only twelve famous myths, myths are told with a degree of detail as each story averages around seven pages of small print.  The stories are a nice length if one wanted to read a single story aloud at bedtime for younger elementary school age children.  Older elementary children (grade three and up) will have no difficulty reading the myths.  The language is engaging without being too challenging.  The focus of the collection is Greek myths, although the author also includes the stories of Beowulf, Roland, Tristram and Iseult, Rustem and Sohrab, and Sigurd of the Volsungs.

The illustrations are fantastic.  The Provensens’ art never disappoints, and here, the collage art has almost a cubist effect.  The illustrations take up the bulk of each page and flow across to the next page of the folio.   The placement of the art on the page does the illustrations justice—sometimes the story wraps around the illustration, sometimes the text flanks an illustration at the center of the page.  The changing page design adds to the visually dynamic quality of the book for the reader.  This book should be in the Museum of Modern Art. -- Sarah Klitenic Wear