The Saga of Eric the Viking

We found our first copy of this book at a used book store and loved it! We are now wanting to get copies for others. However, the edition we have has full-color (watercolor) illustrations by Foreman that are stunning and add so much to the tale. The version offered here appears to be black and white and without nearly as many pictures. My 10 year old first thought that the story would be for little kids (he has been reading avidly since age seven when he first read Eregon, The Hobbit, and the like) but soon discovered otherwise. This is a book that we read together as a family and we all enjoyed (even my 4 year-old who "hates" books). This is the only "picture book" that my kids still ask to read as a family, and to see that this version lacks the amazing artwork of other editions is dissapointing. I would suggest to everyone to find the full-color edition, it is completely worth any extra time and cost to have that element. Our copy is published in 1985 by Puffin Books/the Penguin Group with a ship set against a sunset as the cover art. That version, I would give 10 stars if I could!

The boys from Monte Python have done it! After reading this book, I was thoroughly satisfied. I don't know what I expected to find within, but the impulse buy was worth it. The illustrations are lovely, and the stories are filled with meaning that you will carry with you always. The tales weave into each another to make on big journey. Each ends up with a moral, therefore making it important for children AND adults to read (since we seem to thinkg growing up means to forget childhood "lessons"). Learn them again with this pleasing book, it will keep you fingering through the pages until there are no more.

Written by ex-Monty Python member Terry Jones, it tells the tale of a Viking named Erik, who, with his men, goes on a quest to find the land where the sun goes at night. It is involving, exciting, well written, and great reading for all ages. I highly recommend it.

This is a good set of stories about Erik's voyages and adventures. Oral traditions of these stories are blatenly obvious, but help younger readers follow the stories. These stories will make great bedtime stories or beginning reader stories. The lessons are timeless and will surely get any child interested in reading more about mythology or the Vikings.