Ancient World Echoes

by Jennifer Courtney

364 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2021

About the author

A homeschool mom for over 15 years who graduated with a degree in English and who loves reading aloud with her own children.

Reviews

[Kelly · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fun read aloud with my oldest daughter for her kindergarten school year. Stories are short and interesting - there were several that were new to me. Vocabulary is advanced, and religion is handled delicately (much of the book does not use the word "god" or "goddess" and uses "deities" or "kings" or something like that instead). Beautiful illustrations.

[Robyn Cain · Rating 4 out of 5]

My (starting the Classical Conversations Cycle 1 school year as 6 and now 7 year old) daughter and I enjoyed these myths, legends, & folk tales from Africa, China, Ancient Greece, Japan, Persia, & India, with the weekly Aesop Fable, a lot more than “New World Echoes”. There wasn’t a single story that we didn’t enjoy. This collection of stories is also great for expanding vocabulary.

[Beth]

Worked through this one with my oldest to make connections with our year in Classical Conversations. We enjoyed a lot of the short stories and the look into various narratives from ancient cultures. Not sure I'll read it with my younger boys when they are older, but I'll be keeping it on hand just in case.

[Rachel Oldaker · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some of the stories were downright awful to read. Difficult, but also dull or just plain sad. Others were a delight.

All in all, 4/5 stars because even though we hated parts of it, we certainly expanded our vocabulary as well as learned to work through sometimes difficult material.

[Amanda · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was our first "Echoes" book. It was okay. The typos sometimes made reading aloud clunky. But I liked that many stories were included that are overlooked in other children's mythology/fable/folk tale books we have. We're going to give the next two Echoes books a try.

[Myersandburnsie · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent anthology including selections from Olive Bupre Miller.

[Heidi · Rating 5 out of 5]

My kids were bummed to finish it. They love these stories.