Hercules: The Strong Man

And his opinion is what counts here. I didn't expect him to show an interest in Greek mythology, but that's exactly what happened. The book is short on character development and long on action, the central story is told like a fable, complete with a touch of message. The pictures are somewhat lurid for my taste...but my son didn't mind a bit. This book is great for reluctant readers who are turned on by comic books, and are making a transition to chapter books. The text is bigger than in most chapter books, and there are pictures on each page. As an added plus, they get exposed to ancient Greece. It's been enough to make me become a fan of the series.

Would you ever fight a one hundred headed dragon? Well Hercules has in MYTH MEN Guardians Of The Legend. In the middle of the story Hercules has to hold the sky. I like Hercules the best, because he's strong and cool. I believe that the moral is that if work hard for something, then you achieve it.

One of my sons had a lot of trouble with beginning reading. How laboriously we taught him his letters, then sounds, then short words! But then we found the Myth Men series. He read these books over and over -- and they have some big words! It's a comic book format, so he could pick up cues from the pictures. This series (and Archie comics, actually) got him over the reading hump, he moved on to text without pictures, and last year he won an award for most books read at his school!