Zeus on the Loose

by John Dougherty

I am the great and mighty Zeus, mortal- give me one good reason why I shouldn't smite you here and now!'Alex's class are learning about the Ancient Greeks. That's why Alex makes a temple (out of loo rolls and a cornflakes box) for the Greek god Zeus. He doesn't expect the god himself to turn up, borrow his mum's nightie and demand a sacrifice at half-past five in the morning. Even worse, Zeus reckons it's time for another Trojan War - in the school playground! Zeus is on the loose-

Genres: Fantasy, Mythology, Humor

96 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 101

About the author

John Dougherty is an award-winning Northern Irish children's writer, born in the town of Larne in 1964. He now lives in Gloucestershire.

He worked as a primary school teacher in London during the 1990s and early 2000s, and during this period began to write stories for children. His first book was published in 2004 and he left teaching the same year to concentrate on his writing career.

From November 2013 – 2015, he was chair of CWIG, the Children's Writer's and Illustrators Group, a sub-group of the UK's Society of Authors.

Reviews

[Maede · Rating 3 out of 5]

در حین گشتن بین کتاب‌های اسطوره، «زئوسِ رها شده» رو پیدا کردم و اسمش جذبم کرد‌. بهتر از اون اینکه تا صفحه‌هاش رو ورق زدم دیدم که نقاشی‌هاش درست عین نقاشی‌های کتاب‌های رولد دال (اثر کوئنتین بلیک) بود و دیگه باید می‌خوندمش.گ

داستان در مورد پسر بچه‌ایه که برای کار کلاسی یک معبد مقوایی زئوس می‌سازه و یکی از هم‌کلاسی‌هاش سر شوخی به زئوس دعا می‌کنه. زئوس هم که بیکاره و این روزها کسی زیاد بهش دعا نمی‌کنه، ظاهر میشه و پسر رو کشیش اعظم خودش می‌کنه. البته ماجرا از اینجا تازه شروع میشه و زئوس تازه می‌خواد روزهای اوج خودش رو تکرار کنه

کتاب واقعاً بامزه و ساده‌ایه و برای آشنایی اولیه با اسطوره‌ها و خدایان یونانی برای بچه‌ها (و بزرگترها) هم خوبه

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۱۴۰۳/۶/۲۶

[Catherine Mayo · Rating 5 out of 5]

A hilarious modern day comedy. An 8 year old who builds a cardboard temple of Zeus, only to find a class mate summon the very god himself, manages to control and befriend an out-of-date deity who in turn is forced to make many compromises.
Zeus tries to get Alex to sacrifice to him each morning, having to make do with the smell of roast beef flavoured crisps instead of spit roasted bull. (view spoiler)

This book is very well written, and stylistically very similar to “The World’s Bellybutton”, by Anne Kelly/Fraser Ross - it uses very modern kid-oriented slangy language. Again, the wit relies to a great extent on the juxtaposition of ancient and modern behaviour. There are frequent line drawings.

[Danny Saeidian · Rating 5 out of 5]

I think this book was AWESOME because I read Greek myths books and Zeus is starred in this book. (-:

[D.J. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Satisfyingly silly.