Amazing Immortals: A Guide to Gods and Goddesses Around the World

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A culturally diverse, fact-filled, and gorgeously illustrated introduction to over 80 gods and goddesses from around the worlda perfect introduction to mythology for young readers.

With heroic deeds, family drama, pulse-pounding battles, and shape-shifting magic, mythology fascinates us all. But even the biggest enthusiasts find it hard to keep track of whos who!

Packed with facts and full-color, lush illustrations, Dinah Williamss Amazing Immortals is a fascinating introduction to these larger-than-life gods and goddesses, highlighting their big personalities, famous adventures, formidable powers, family trees, animal companions, and appearances in pop culture. Organized by themefrom gods of creation to gods of death and the underworld; from gods of water to gods of fire; from gods of love to gods of warthis diverse encyclopedia features both familiar and underrepresented deities.

Filled with betrayal, intrigue, romance, and impossible feats, their captivating stories entertain us, explain our world, and help answer some of lifes biggest questions.

Includes gods and goddesses from 30 pantheons:
Akan * Annang *Aztec * Babylonian * Bushongo * Canaanite * Celtic * Chinese * Efik * Egyptian * Finnish * Greek * Hawaiian * Hindu * Hittite * Hopi * Ibibio * Incan * Inuit * Korean * Lithuanian * Mori * Mayan * Navajo * Norse * Pueblo * Roman * Shinto * Sumerian * Yoruba

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***STARRED REVIEW***
"A captivating and awesome volume on world mythology that wont stay on shelves for long. There could never be enough mythology books, but this one is gorgeous, informative, accessible, and overall, fun."

***STARRED REVIEW***
"An outstanding companion for more conventional, or constrained, surveys."

Author Bio

Dinah Dunn, under her married name Williams, has written more than a dozen historical books for kids, including Scholastics Terrible But True: Awful Events in American History, True Haunting Deadly Disasters, and Spooky Cemeteries, which won the 2009 Childrens Choice Book of the Year Award.