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Zach Weinersmith

9 year old is into mythical epics. She knows Beowulf. Got her a kids Iliad, Odyssey, and Ramayana. What else?

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wakame

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I was about to suggest the Edda, but maybe a heavily annotated version that covers Snorri's skewed worldview.

oschene

@ZachWeinersmith D'aulaire's Book of Greek Myths. D'aulaire's Book of Norse Myths.

XauriEL Zwaan

@ZachWeinersmith see if you can find a kids' version of the Kalevala, the national epic of Finland

David Cantrell 🏏

@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.

Michael Busch

@ZachWeinersmith Are there good English kids' versions of "Journey to the West" ?

Polywog πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ (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.

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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When she's read the Ramayana, then next should be the Mahabharatha. It's also available in comic book format.
My kids are into Rick Riordan's books. And have read Gaiman's Norse Mythology.

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