9 year old is into mythical epics. She knows Beowulf. Got her a kids Iliad, Odyssey, and Ramayana. What else?
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9 year old is into mythical epics. She knows Beowulf. Got her a kids Iliad, Odyssey, and Ramayana. What else? 21 comments
wakame
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XauriEL Zwaan
@ZachWeinersmith see if you can find a kids' version of the Kalevala, the national epic of Finland
David Cantrell π
@ZachWeinersmith Edda, Aeneid, Journey to the West, Gilgamesh, Mabinogion. Hopefully someone else can recommend some African and American epics to add to that list.
Woozle Hypertwin
@ZachWeinersmith I always enjoyed D'Aulaire's Norse myths, but it's super out-of-print. I'll second the Rick Riordan suggestion.
Polywog π³οΈβπ (she/her)
@ZachWeinersmith - at that age I was wildly into Robin Hood stories (I had a version published in the 1930s) and Mary Renault's retelling of the Theseus myth (the King Must Die), but it miiiight be a bit spicy and should probably be parent-vetted first (I was reading some decidedly age-inappropriate things in the 9-14 years; I was 10 when I first read an annotated Hamlet, though the sex jokes definitely went flying over my head). But there's always classics like The Last Unicorn and The Hobbit!
Edwin Young
@ZachWeinersmith Journey to the West, maybe? Not sure which translation/adaptation though. "Black Ships before Troy" with Alan Lee's illustrations is very good.
Karen
@ZachWeinersmith this is the epic journey every Chinese kid learns https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_King
Shevaun
@ZachWeinersmith the TΓ‘in Bo Cuailnge, or the Cattle Raid of Cooley, is the best known Irish epic, if that helps.
Musa Nony
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@ZachWeinersmith Is there a kids' Gilgamesh?