Medusa Tells All: Beauty Missing, Hair Hissing

by Rebecca Fjelland Davis, Stephen Gilpin (Illustrator)

Overview

OF COURSE you think I was disrespectful and incredibly vain, that I deserved to be turned into a monster. You don't know the other side of the myth. Well, let me tell you …

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781479558537
Publisher:	Capstone
Publication date:	09/01/2014
Series:	The Other Side of the Myth
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	24
File size:	13 MB
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Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Rebecca Fjelland Davis lives near Good Thunder, Minnesota. Her young-adult novels include Chasing AllieCat (Flux, 2011), a Junior Library Guild Selection; and Jake Riley: Irreparably Damaged (HarperCollins, 2003), a BCCB Blue Ribbon Fiction Book; her short story "Mars at Night" appears in the anthology Girl Meets Boy: Because There Are Two Sides to Every Story (Chronicle, 2012), on the Kirkus Review’s list of "Best Teen Books of 2012." Rebecca has also written nine nonfiction books for children. She’s a cyclist, a dog owner, and an instructor at South Central College (North Mankato, Minn.), where she teaches a lot of Greek mythology.

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Editorial Reviews

The colorful cartoon illustrations add a nice touch of humor, like the trail of petrified townspeople in Medusa’s wake after her transformation. Concluding with Common Core Standards focused questions, this would be useful for expanding discussions of classic mythology.

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