Be Careful, Icarus! (Mini Myths)

by Joan Holub, Leslie Patricelli (Illustrator)

Overview

After little Icarus and his dad make a bird-shaped kite, Dad warns Icarus to hold on to the string and not let it fly too high. But Icarus disobeys, and soon the kite gets caught in the trees! Dad helps him repair the kite so they can play with it again, and Icarus learns the importance of being careful. Joan Holub’s carefully crafted text is brought to life by Leslie Patricelli’s famously humorous illustrations. Includes a summary of the original Icarus myth.

Also available in the Mini Myths series: Don't Get Lost, Odysseus and Good Job, Athena!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781419716775
Publisher:	Abrams Appleseed
Publication date:	09/01/2015
Series:	Mini Myths Series
Pages:	24
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 7.00(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	1 - 3 Years

About the Author

Joan Holub is the award-winning, bestselling author of more than 130 children’s books, including the popular series Goddess Girls. She lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.


Leslie Patricelli has published more than 25 books for children, including Yummy Yucky and other titles in the bestselling Bald Baby board-book series. She lives in Ketchum, Idaho.

Editorial Reviews

08/03/2015
In the fifth entry in the Mini Myths series, a young Icarus proves just as reckless as his mythological forebear. This time around, though, the worst that happens is that Icarus spills some paint and gets his kite stuck in a tree after he tries to fly it ever higher. “Don’t worry. We can fix it,” reassures Icarus’s father, who goes unnamed in this abbreviated adaptation. Like the previous books in the series, it’s a playful modern-day riff on a classic mythological tale; readers curious about the original can get a taste of it in a brief recounting on the final page. Simultaneously available: Please Share, Aphrodite! Ages 1–3. Author’s agent: Liza Pulitzer Voges, Eden Street Literary. Illustrator’s agent: Rebecca Sherman, Writers House. (Sept.)

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