The Iliad and The Odyssey Author:Jane Werner Watson A great way to introduce young people into the Greek culture that is so interwoven with our daily lives. Young children who read this book will have an easy introduction to a lasting foundation that will give them broader insight into a world that is filled with allusions to the Iliad and the Odyssey - things that children who have not been intr... more »oduced to this world often miss. The illustrations by Alice and Martin Provensen are unforgettably beautiful and classic with motion that invites the observer to carry on to the next moment: horses and men fall in battle, the gods look on, Odysseus keeps an eye on the cyclops while his men prepare their escape, a map of the world at Homer's time with Greece at the center of the universe. Golden Books almost has a cultural obligation to re release this great children's book.« less