"For two thousand years, the epic tale of Aeneas's dramatic flight from Troy, his doomed love affair with Dido, his descent into the underworld, and the bloody story behind the establishment of Rome has electrified audiences around the world. In Vergil's telling, Aeneas's heroic journey not only gave Romans and Italians a thrilling origin story, it established many of the fundamental themes of Western life and literature-the role of duty and self-sacrifice,...

A once-famous Italian juggler, now old and a beggar, gives one final performance before a statue of Our Lady and the Holy Child.

Collects seven legends and parables of Yiddish and Slavic folktale tradition created in the early nineteenth century by a Ukrainian Hasidic rabbi.

"Percy Jackson, a modern-day demigod, tells the origin stories of the gods of Olympus and provides an insider's point of view - with plenty of attitude - in this illustrated collection"--

Describes the history and traditions of a Hanukkah celebration in a book with foil-tipped candles that show through the pages. On board pages.

A clever spider tricks Elephant and some other animals into thinking the melon in which he is hiding can talk.

Presents the life of Merlin the magician from his miraculous birth through the age of seventeen, before he met King Arthur.