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Title: Hippolyta and the Curse of the Amazons by Jane Yolen, Robert J. Harris ISBN: 0-06-028736-5 Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Pub. Date: 05 March, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: All About Hippolyta and the Curse of the Amazons
Comment: Hippolyta and the Curse of the Amazons is about 14 year old Hippolyta, who is a amazon princess. Amazons are women who never marry. One of their laws is that if the queen bears a second son, it is to be sacrificed to the goddess that they beleive in, Artemis.Hippolyta's Mother is the queen, and she gives birth to a second son, but she refuses to let him be sacrificed. She is sent to prison, leaving Hippolyta and her four sisters in greif. One night, Hippolyta is sent by a sorceress-like woman to see her mother. Her mother asks her to bring the baby to it's father in a city called Troy. Troy happens to be a long way away from Hippolyta's home, and at first she protests. Her Mother talks to her and finally persuades Hippolyta to do it, sending Hippolyta on the journey of a lifetime. On her way, Hippolyta battles men, sea monsters, gryphons, and even Artemis herself. On the way, Hippolyta learns that she has true courage, love, and loyalty that she wasn't even aware of. Hippolyta and the Curse of the Amazons is a must read for those who like books that are full of adventure, fantasy, and horror. Hippolyta and the Curse of the Amazons is a thriller and will keep you on the edge of your seat from beginning to end!
Rating: 5
Summary: Hippolyta... Excellent!
Comment: I loved this book. It shows that women can do something besides sitting at home like in other stories.
This book is about Hippolyta, one of the princesses of the Amazons. Hippolyta has three sisters and a brother whom she's never met. The story starts and then Queen Otre, Hippolyta's mother, has a baby. It's a boy and the queen cannot have more than one boy live. Unfortunantly, they have to sacrifice the baby, but Queen Otre doesn't want to.
Rating: 5
Summary: Brilliant characters and a great romp through mythology
Comment: Yolen and Harris have, once again, produced a terrifically fun book in their Young Heroes series. The basic premise - of looking at characters from Greek myth when they were children - is intrinsically full of interest, and with writers like these two in charge, it works beautifully.
One of the (many) great strengths of the collaboration of Yolen and Harris is the singular depth of the characterization. Throughout the book, Hippolyta is - well, a teenager. By turns charming, despairing, arrogant, boastful, and deeply self-absorbed, with all the focused self-righteousness of one who has never questioned what she has been told. This beats the 'the heroine/ hero is always sympathetic' vein of writing children's books hollow. Even I know too many teenagers to buy that one!
This is a coming-of-age novel in a profound sense, as Hippolyta is forced by circumstances - of kinship with a babe and a younger brother, of dealing with the gods and with more immediately threatening human enemies, of dealing with her own history and heritage - to examine her beliefs and her actions for the first time. That she does so with occasional ill-grace and stubbornness, while still acting like a true hero - saving unfortunates in distress, fighting off gryphons in a ruined city, even facing up to the gods - is a lovely tang of reality in this journey towards self-realization.
The book also has large doses of wry humour, like its companion volume Odysseus in the Serpent Maze, which makes it a fun read for both children and adults. The fact that the authors have woven into the book so much historical/archaeological information that I, for one, didn't know about Amazons, is really just the icing on the rich and satisfying cake of this novel.
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Title: Odysseus in the Serpent Maze (Young Heroes) by Jane Yolen ISBN: 0064408477 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 05 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Atalanta and the Arcadian Beast (Young Heroes) by Jane Yolen ISBN: 006029454X Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: Jason and the Gorgon's Blood (Young Heroes) by Jane Yolen ISBN: 0060294523 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 17 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: Sword of the Rightful King: A Novel of King Arthur by Jane Yolen ISBN: 0152025278 Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Just Jane: A Daughter of England Caught in the Struggle of the American Revolution by William Lavender ISBN: 0152025871 Publisher: Gulliver Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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