Full name: In Search of a Homeland: The Story of the Aeneid

Author: Penelope Lively Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Children Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780385729376 9781845076856 0385729375 1845076850

A glorious gift book from an award-winning storyteller and a much lauded illustrator, who evoke the high drama of mythical Greece and the prehistory of Rome in this retelling of "The Aeneid." Taking his old father on his back and his young son by the hand, Aeneas flees the sacked city of Troy, entrusted by his goddess-mother, Venus, with a daunting mission: Find a new homeland for his people. It is an arduous journey. At every turn, unimaginable dangers await him: terrible monsters and giants; supernatural hazards sent by the enraged goddess Juno; and worst of all, an eerie, death-defying descent into the Underworld, where he will be allowed a glimpse of his Roman descendants' glorious future. Similar books: Black Ships Before Troy by Rosemary Sutcliff George Washington's World by Joanna Foster The Statue of Liberty by Lucille Recht Penner The Fields of Home by Marita Conlon-McKenna Catherine by Kristiana Gregory Victoria by Anna Kirwan A Child's History of the World by V. M. Hillyer By Pike & Dyke by G. A. Henty The Wild Hunt of Hagworthy by Penelope Lively A Stitch in Time by Penelope Lively The House in Norham Gardens by Penelope Lively Many Thousand Gone by Virginia Hamilton Lincoln by Russell Freedman Twelve Days in May by Larry Dane Brimner The Gods and Goddesses of Olympus by Aliki Wheels of Change by Sue Macy To Dare Mighty Things by Doreen Rappaport Classic Myths to Read Aloud by William F. Russell If You Sailed on the Mayflower in 1620 by Ann McGovern Escape From Pompeii by Christina Balit