Illustrated Norse Myths (Illustrated Story Collections)

Its quite a good book only if you are interested in Thor, Asgard, Odin, Bifrost, Nidavellir and other factionary places. Otherwise it will bore you for sure. The stories are not very clear too!!

My children loved it.

Good read

Love the book very good English... Gives max scope for imagination

Was a bit disappointed with this. I also have the Greek myths and Fairy Stories versions, both of which have illustrations on each page. This only has 1 tiny illustration every 4 pages or so.The storytelling is fine, but considering it’s an ‘illustrated’ book they could have done so much more. My son kept asking me to show him examples of the things in the stories - it was a bit heartbreaking when I couldn’t.

Read this repeatedly to my 6 year old daughter for bedtime stories. She loves it almost as much as the Greek myths book by Usborne. I like how the book is structured, taking you from the creation of the world through the tales of the gods to the ending of the world - or the prophesying of it by Odin, at least. Within the overall structure there are sections with three stories in each. The individual stories are an ideal length for children about 5-9 I would say (and for grown-ups reading them). The illustrations are generally excellent. One to read over and over.

Highly recommended, bought this for my little sister as an introduction to mythologies, absolutely fantastic book, beautifully bound, nice pictures with a good ratio of pics to text, not overloaded with giant pictures like other books i was looking at, so still provides a good read even for myself when i read it to her, some details of the stories are slightly changed to suit a younger audience but the core is still the same.

I got this for my son and ended up reading it myself. It's a great book with fantastic illustrations and re-tells lesser known Norse myths, makes a change from the over-done Greek ones!

A very well presented book, with colourful pictures and readily accessible text for my young grandchildren. Similar in quality to the companion book of Greek Myths, which is a firm favourite with them. Looking forward to reading it to them on Christmas Day!!