Mythology & Legends in Picture Books and YA
Apollo by Katherine Miller
Arion and the Dolphins by Lonzo Anderson
Arrow to the Sun by Gerald McDermott
Balder and the Mistletoe :A Story for the Winter Holidays retold by Edna Barth
Black Elk: A Man With a Vision by Carol Greene
Cerberus by Bernard Evslin
The Chimaera by Bernard Evslin
Cyclops by Leonard Everett Fisher
The Cyclopes by Bernard Evslin
The Fire Thief by Terry Deary (YA) (Prometheus)
Goddess of Yesterday by Caroline B. Cooney (YA)
The Great God Pan by Donna Jo Napoli
The Heavenly Zoo by Alison Lurie
Heraclea: A Legend of Warrior Women by Bernard Evslin
Iduna and the Magic Apples by Marianna Mayer
It’s All Greek to Me by Jon Scieszka (A Time Warp Trio book)
Jason and the Argonauts by Bernard Evslin
The Legend of Sleeping Bear by Kathy Jo Wargin
Little Sister by Kara Delkey (YA) (Japanese)
Loki by Robert Rodi and Esad Ribic (Graphic Novel)
Mystify the Magician by K.A. Applegate (YA) (Celtic)
Once Upon a Starry Night: A Book of Constellations by Jaqueline Mitton
The Outlaws of Sherwood by Robin McKinley (YA)
Perseus by Warwick Hutton
The Prince and the Golden Ax: A Minoan Tale by Deborah Nourse (J)
Quicksilver by Stephanie Spinner (YA)
Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer (YA)
Singer to the Sea God by Vivien Alcock (YA)
The Sirens by Bernard Evslin
Star Boy by Paul Goble
Stolen Thunder: A Norse Myth by Shirley Climo
Stone Soup by Heather Forest
Stories from the Stars by Juliet Sharman Burke
Strangers Dark and Gold by Norma Johnston (Jason and Argonauts)
We Goddesses: Athena, Aphrodite, Hera by Doris Orgel (J)
Women Warriors: Myths and Legends of Heroic Women by Marianna Mayer
Why Dolphins Call: A Story of Dionysus by Jamie Simons
Creation Myths
Beginnings by Penelope Farmer
In the Beginning by Virginia Hamilton
Flood Myths
Detective Zack and the Secret of Noah’s Flood by Jerry D. Thomas
In the Days of Noah by Gloria Clanin
Llama and the Great Flood: A Tale from Peru by Ellen Alexander
Little Scraggly Hair : A Dog on Noah's Ark by Lynn Cullen
Noah by Patricia Lee Gauch
Noah and the Animals by Prue Theobolds
Noah and the Ark by Belinda Hollyer
Noah's Ark and the Great Flood by Gloria Clanin
Noah: The Story of the Ark by Geoffrey Butcher
The Story of Noah and the Ark by Geraldine McCaughrean
Two by Two by Barbara Reid
Watakame’s Journey: The Story of the Great Flood and the New World by Hallie N. Love
Arachne
Arachne Speaks by Kate Hovey
Why Spiders Spin: A Story of Arachne by Jamie Simons
Atalanta
Atalanta and the Arcadian Beast by Jane Yolen
Atalanta’s Race: A Greek Myth by Shirley Climo
Quiver by Stephanie Spinner (YA)
Cupid and Psyche
Cupid and Psyche by M. Charlotte Craft
Cupid and Psyche : A Love Story by Edna Barth
Cupid the God of Love by Frances Winwar
The Princess and the God by Doris Orgel (YA)
Demeter and Persephone
Demeter and Persephone; Homeric Hymn Number Two by Penelope Proddow
Persephone, Bringer of Spring by Sarah F. Tomaino
Persephone by Warwick Hutton
Persephone and the Pomegranate: A Myth from Greece by Kris Waldherr
Phone Home, Persephone! by Kate McMullen
Song to Demeter by Cynthia and William Birrer
The Story of Persephone by Penelope Farmer
Two Queens of Heaven: Aphrodite and Demeter by Doris Gates
Hercules
Hercules by Bernard Evslin
Hercules: The Man, The Myth, The Hero by Kathryn Lasky (J)
Hercules by Robin Moore (J)
King Midas
King Midas by Catherine Stoor
King Midas and His Gold by Patricia McKissack
King Midas and the Golden Touch by Kathryn Hewitt
King Midas and the Golden Touch by Eric Metaxis
King Midas and the Golden Touch by Charlotte Craft
Max and Ruby’s Midas: Another Greek Myth by Rosemary Wells
The Adventures of King Midas by Lynne Reid Banks (YA)
The Eyes of Kid Midas by Neal Shusterman (YA)
The Iliad and The Odyssey
Adventures of Odysseus by Andrew Lang
Aleta and the Queen: A Tale of Ancient Greece by Patricia Galloway (J)
Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of the Iliad by Rosemary Sutcliff (YA)
Dateline: Troy by Paul Fleischman (YA)
Inside the Walls of Troy: A Novel of the Women who Lived in the Trojan War by Clarence
McLaren (YA)
Ithaka by Adele Geras (YA)
Odysseus in the Serpent Maze by Jane Yolen (YA)
The Odyssey adapted by Adrian Mitchell (YA)
The Odyssey by Geraldine McCaughrean
Tales from the Odyssey series by Mary Pope Osborn (J)
The Trojan Horse by Warwick Hutton (J)
Troy by Adele Geras (YA)
The Voyages of Ulysses by Clifton Fadiman
The Wanderings of Odysseus : The Story of the Odyssey (J)
Medusa
The Hero Perseus: A Mad Myth Mystery by Robyn and Tony Di Tocco
Jason and the Gorgon’s Blood by Jane Yolen (J)
Medusa by Bernard Evslin (J)
Perseus by Bernard Evslin (J)
Snake Dreamer by Priscilla Galloway (YA)
Trap for Perseus by Ludek Pesek (J)
Pandora
Max and Ruby in Pandora’s Box by Rosemary Wells
Pandora’s Box by Lisl Weil
Pandora’s Box: The Paradise of Children by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Pegasus
Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus by Tennant Redbank
Pegasus by Krystyna Turska (J)
Pegasus by Marianna Mayer
Pegasus, the Winged Horse by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Quicksilver by Stephanie Spinner (YA)
Theseus and the Minotaur
Ariadne, Awake! by Doris Orgel
Lost in the Labyrinth by Patrice Kindl (YA)
The Minotaur by Bernard Evslin
The Minotaur of Knosses by Roberto Angeletti (J)