The Big Book of Celtic Gods and Goddesses

by Joe Potter, Erin Brown (illustrator)

96 pages, Hardcover

Published June 6, 2024

Reviews

[Kyla Dunham · Rating 1 out of 5]

I bought this at a Ren Faire. I really wish I had sat down and read through a whole story before buying it, I was so excited and thought from the other books around me that I had already read that I understood what kind of book this would be. It looks like a book about Celtic Gods and Goddesses, and their lore. I am a Celtic pagan and I know a lot of these stories so I was excited to find a kid's book about them I could share. This is not that. At all. This is written to convert people to Christianity. Every story is about the gods discovering that the Christian god is better. Especially Brigid and the Eternal Flame. Left such a bad taste in my mouth, and made me really disgusted with the author. Should give this a different title that reflects what it actually it. 'Christian Tales of the Celtic Gods and Goddesses' or 'How the Old Gods found the New God' or something like that. Just be honest about your goals here. These are not ancient tales. The ancient tales don't have the Christan god in them because the most ancient tales are from before Christianity.

[ThymeOperator · Rating 3 out of 5]

Half brilliant, half infuriating for the Christian takeover of some of the stories, making them not Celtic at all. It could have been ordered better, too, so it introduced everyone in sequence and didn't end on such a sad note.

Gorgeous illustrations, though.