Helping Hercules, Francesca Simon
Helping Hercules, Francesca Simon
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Helping Hercules

Author: Francesca Simon

Narrator: Mark Perry

Unabridged: 2 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/15/2006


Synopsis

Here are the Greek myths as you've never heard them before.

Susan is whisked back through time to Ancient Greece, and finds that helping Hercules clean the Augean stables is much, much worse than tidying her room. One hair-raising experience follows another as she goes down into the Underworld with Orpheus, just misses being turned to stone by Medusa, and rides on the winged horse Pegasus.

This is both a fabulously funny story and a brilliant way to introduce children to eight of the best-known Greek myths. Susan meddles in each of the myths - taking a dim view of the gods and goddesses and heroes she encounters - but gets out in the nick of time, so the myths themselves remain unchanged and will be remembered vividly by their readers.

Read by Mark Perry

About Francesca Simon

Francesca Simon MBE spent her childhood on the beach in California and started writing stories at the age of eight. She wrote her first Horrid Henry book in 1994. Horrid Henry has gone on to conquer the globe; his adventures are published in 27 languages and have sold millions of copies worldwide. Francesca has won the Children's Book of the Year Award and been a judge for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the Roald Dahl Funny Prize. In 2009, in one of the proudest moments of her career, Francesca was awarded a Gold Blue Peter badge. She was appointed MBE in the 2023 New Year Honours. Francesca is also a passionate ambassador for children's literacy and is a trustee of the World Book Day charity. She lives in North London with her family.Visit Francesca's website at www.francescasimon.com and keep up-to-date with Horrid Henry at www.horridhenry.co.uk. You can also follow her on Twitter @simon_francesca

About Tony Ross

Tony Ross was born in London and studied at the Liverpool School of Art and Design. He has worked as a cartoonist, a graphic designer, as the Art Director of an advertising agency, and as Senior Lecturer in Art at Manchester Polytechnic. Tony is one of the most popular and successful children's illustrators of all time, best known for illustrating Horrid Henry and the works of David Walliams. Tony's books have been translated into 40 languages in over 100 countries. He lives in Macclesfield.

About Mark Perry

Mark Perry of BBC's Dead Ringers fame (as the voice of Martin Jarvis and Graham Norton) is a political and sports impressionist in other BBC radio series and in The Archers. On TV he has appeared in Mr Charity and in various stage productions around Britain.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Eyebrow on August 04, 2024

I've finished reading it for the third time, other two times I believe were in late 2010 and early 2015. I'd give it a 3.5, due to the educational content (the Greek myths and legend characters dramatised in a comic way without being too off the track. I just wished it was a larger anthology with mor......more

Goodreads review by Susanne on October 31, 2021

Neat idea, Francesca-Simonly-well written, with some very funny dialogues.......more

Goodreads review by Carol on July 20, 2015

Susan is anything but helpful at home. So not surprisingly, her magic coin sends her on mythological adventures to help cure her of her stubborn laziness. Turns out she was the brains behind many of the greatest mythical adventures of all time!......more