The Greeks are Coming

Ever since the first viewing of the trailer for Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightening Thief, D has desperately wanted to see the movie. After hearing about it for weeks, C jumped on board. I finally found a copy at our used bookstore because I try to get them to read – or listen – to the book before seeing the movie. They love it. And it has inspired tons of google look-ups (Greek architecture, Minotaur and satyr images, descriptions of the gods and a family tree). While I sometimes struggle to get them to listen to a chapter a night, we’ve flown through half the book in three days – and that’s only because I couldn’t read anymore. We also found a copy of D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths today and were reading blurb about different characters from the book as reference.

B, who is too young for Percy Jackson, has been listening to her brothers. While they were debating whether they’d choose to be the god of the sky, seas or underworld, she decided she liked the sound of the beautiful goddess of love. So she found a pink scrap of cloth and made herself a toga to wander the house in. That’s the spirit.