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O'Malley, Kevin

Mount Olympus Basketball

32 pp. | Walker | March, 2003 | Trade ISBN 0-8027-8844-0 $$15.95 | Library ISBN 0-8027-8845-9 $$16.85
(4) K-3 As the gods play the mortals in a game of basketball, two sportscasters discuss the event--and thereby narrate the book. The text and cartoony illustrations, complete with dialogue bubbles, are humorous (Hera turns the ref into a cow; Odysseus scores a basket using the "old Trojan-horse play"), but it's a one-joke premise that presumes that readers already have some knowledge of Greek mythology. Bib.
Reviewer: Peter D. Sieruta

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