Kate McMullan. (2013). Hit the Road, Helen! Capstone.

Kate McMullan. 2013. Hit the Road, Helen! Capstone.

Kate McMullan, Hit the Road, Helen! Capstone, 2013.

Kate McMullan. Hit the Road, Helen! Capstone, 2013.

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   • bioText: Kate McMullan is the author of the chapter book series Dragon Slayers' Academy as well as easy-readers featuring Fluffy, the Classroom Guinea Pig. She and her illustrator husband, Jim McMullan, have created several award-winning picture books, including I STINK!, I'M DIRTY!, and I'M BIG! Her latest work is SCHOOL! Adventures at Harvey N. Trouble Elementary in collaboration with the famed New Yorker cartoonist, George Booth. Kate and Jim live in Sag Harbor, NY, with two bulldogs and a mews named George.
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When Paris and Helen decide to hit the road together, it means more trouble than they can imagine for both themselves and the people of Troy. But who says Helen is entirely at fault? Sure she had a face that launched a thousand ships but she also had a little interference from the meddling god of love and his mother, Aphrodite. Think you know the truth behind the Greek myths? Think again. Hades is here to set you straight once more on the true story of the Trojan War.

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     The ninth in a series of rollicking Greek-god-and-goddess tales for those not quite ready for Rick Riordan. Hades, Ruler of the Underworld, narrates, taking it upon himself to clarify the, er, myths in The Big Fat Book of Greek Myths that his little brother Zeus has propagated. He takes on the entire Trojan War, emphasizing how hard he tried to prevent it. The tone is set right from the cover, on which the beauteous Helen has been tagged by a rebellious Cupid's arrow right in her shapely derriere. That Smoochie Woochie arrow is what made Helen go to Troy with Paris, leaving her husband Menelaus and causing the whole Greece-and-Troy megillah. Hades prefers hanging around with "Cerbie," his three-headed dog, and watching wrestling from his La-Z-God recliner, but he tries mightily to head off all the battles that Zeus and the other gods keep inflaming for their own amusement. Since Hades is also god of the afterlife, the ghosts of Hector, Achilles and Penthesilea get to tell their own stories when they arrive at his Motel Styx. Young readers will get the whole of the Helen of Troy story in an amazingly lighthearted way, plus discussion questions, a glossary and "King Hades's Quick-and-Easy Guide to the Myths" thrown in for good measure. (Fractured mythology. 9-12) COPYRIGHT(1) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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     July 15, 2013
     The ninth in a series of rollicking Greek-god-and-goddess tales for those not quite ready for Rick Riordan. Hades, Ruler of the Underworld, narrates, taking it upon himself to clarify the, er, myths in The Big Fat Book of Greek Myths that his little brother Zeus has propagated. He takes on the entire Trojan War, emphasizing how hard he tried to prevent it. The tone is set right from the cover, on which the beauteous Helen has been tagged by a rebellious Cupid's arrow right in her shapely derriere. That Smoochie Woochie arrow is what made Helen go to Troy with Paris, leaving her husband Menelaus and causing the whole Greece-and-Troy megillah. Hades prefers hanging around with "Cerbie," his three-headed dog, and watching wrestling from his La-Z-God recliner, but he tries mightily to head off all the battles that Zeus and the other gods keep inflaming for their own amusement. Since Hades is also god of the afterlife, the ghosts of Hector, Achilles and Penthesilea get to tell their own stories when they arrive at his Motel Styx. Young readers will get the whole of the Helen of Troy story in an amazingly lighthearted way, plus discussion questions, a glossary and "King Hades's Quick-and-Easy Guide to the Myths" thrown in for good measure. (Fractured mythology. 9-12)

     COPYRIGHT(2013) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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     January 1, 2014
     In this latest series entry, narrator Hades, Greek god of the underworld, "tells it like it is" as he recounts events surrounding the Trojan War. McMullan occasionally strays from the source material, though the retelling's conceit allows for the transgressions. General silliness and humorous dialogue breathe some fresh air into these old tales.

     (Copyright 2014 by The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston. All rights reserved.)

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When Paris and Helen decide to hit the road together, it means more trouble than they can imagine for both themselves and the people of Troy. But who says Helen is entirely at fault? Sure she had a face that launched a thousand ships but she also had a little interference from the meddling god of love and his mother, Aphrodite. Think you know the truth behind the Greek myths? Think again. Hades is here to set you straight once more on the true story of the Trojan War.

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Two blue eggs — Three weddings — For the fairest — A dip in the Styx — Go back! Go back! — The oath — A thousand ships — Takings sides — War! — Ghost stories — Achilles's armor — Meanwhile, in the underworld — The bow of Hercules — The trojan horse.

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