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Discusses the stories which people from the ancient world told to explain their understanding of what they could see in the sky.
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Book Description:
This beautiful and wide-ranging book explores the eternal mysteries of the sun, moon, and stars. Alongside stories adapted from ancient mythology are pages of celestial lore -- facts and ideas about how people used to navigate by the stars and why they thought the earth was flat, about the Star of Bethlehem and the Signs of the Zodiac.
About the Author:
Here are more than twenty myths and legends taken from cultures around the world, including:
-- The Greek hero Phaeton who drove his chariot through the sky
-- The Chinese heavenly archer who saved his people from monsters
-- The Pawnee love story of Great Star and White Star Woman
-- The Norse fable of the children in the moon
-- the Ancient Egyptian belief in Mother Sky
The lovely retellings of these stories with their insights into the past make stirring reading, enhanced by the exquisite images, rich with silver and gold, that abound throughout this handsome volume.
Children's author and reviewer Mary Hoffman was born in 1945. She attended Newnham College to study English literature and University College London to study linguistics. She started writing in 1970 and has written about eighty children's books including the picture book Amazing Grace, the Stravaganza series, and the anti-war anthology Lines in the Sand. She is also the editor of the children's book review magazine Armadillo, which comes out four times a year. She currently lives in Carterton, outside Oxford, with her husband.
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- PublisherTodtri Book Pub
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 1577171764
- ISBN 13 9781577171768
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages77
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