Oxford Reading Tree: Stage 13: TreeTops Myths and Legends How Winter Came into the World

by Mal Peet, Elspeth Graham

56 pages, Paperback

Published February 7, 2010

About the author

Mal Peet grew up in North Norfolk, and studied English and American Studies at the University of Warwick. Later he moved to southwest England and worked at a variety of jobs before turning full-time to writing and illustrating in the early 1990s. With his wife, Elspeth Graham, he had written and illustrated many educational picture books for young children, and his cartoons have appeared in a number of magazines.

Reviews

[Iker · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is about a god of the dead called Hades who falls in love with a beautiful goddess called Persephone.
Hades brings her to the Underworld but Persephone´s mother and father are angry. His father sends a messenger to say Hades to bring her daughter back so he did. Persephone accidently ate three seeds of the dead and if someone eats something from the dead they can´t go again to the living. So, one month for each seed she ate. Each year she has to go to the Underworld for three months and the rest of the years she will live in the living. For each month that Persephone is in the Underworld her mother will bring winter.
I liked this legend.

[William Norton · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked how it was themed around the Greek gods.