《书目》(Booklist)书评

Gr. 6-12. Continuing his series of mythological monsters (the first four were reviewed in Booklist 83:1600 Je 15 87), Evslin grants these three grotesque figures the same kind of treatment. Beautifully designed with a variety of reproductions of museum art, these books are immediately attractive. Evslin's texts match that standard; he uses dramatic prose in his story of the three-headed dog who becomes the sentinel at the portals of Hell in Cerberus and continues his graceful style in retelling The Dragon of Boeotia, the story of a selfish prince who is turned into a winged dragon by the goddess Demeter, and in Geryon, the myth about the triple-bodied monster who loses his life in a battle with Hercules. As in the first books, the cast of characters is outlined at the beginning and source notes on the graphics are appended. Recommended for sophisticated readers. BE.