Wonder Stories

About this eBook

Author

Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin, 1875-1961

Title

Wonder Stories: The Best Myths for Boys and Girls

Credits

Produced by Bryan Ness, Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres

Subject

Mythology, Classical -- Juvenile literature

Category

Text

eBook-No.

35704

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35704

Release Date

March 29, 2011

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.WONDER STORIES THE BEST MYTHS FOR BOYS AND GIRLS BY CAROLYN SHERWIN BAILEY
2. 2.HOW THE MYTHS BEGAN
3. 3.WHAT PROMETHEUS DID WITH A BIT OF CLAY
4. 4.[1] THE PARADISE OF CHILDREN — FOOTNOTE:
5. 5.WHAT BECAME OF THE GIANTS
6. 6.HOW VULCAN MADE THE BEST OF THINGS
7. 7.HOW ORION FOUND HIS SIGHT
8. 8.THE WONDERS VENUS WROUGHT
9. 9.WHERE THE LABYRINTH LED
10. 10.HOW PERSEUS CONQUERED THE SEA
11. 11.PEGASUS, THE HORSE WHO COULD FLY
12. 12.HOW MARS LOST A BATTLE
13. 13.HOW MINERVA BUILT A CITY
14. 14.CADMUS, THE ALPHABET KING
15. 15.THE PICTURE MINERVA WOVE
16. 16.THE HERO WITH A FAIRY GODMOTHER
17. 17.[2] THE PYGMIES. — FOOTNOTE:
18. 18.THE HORN OF PLENTY.
19. 19.THE WONDER THE FROGS MISSED
20. 20.WHEN PHAETON'S CHARIOT RAN AWAY.
21. 21.WHEN APOLLO WAS HERDSMAN.
22. 22.HOW JUPITER GRANTED A WISH.
23. 23.HOW HYACINTHUS BECAME A FLOWER.
24. 24.HOW KING MIDAS LOST HIS EARS.
25. 25.HOW MERCURY GAVE UP HIS TRICKS.
26. 26.A LITTLE ERRAND GIRL'S NEW DRESS
27. 27.WHEN PROSERPINE WAS LOST
28. 28.THE PLOUGHMAN WHO BROUGHT FAMINE.
29. 29.THE BEE MAN OF ARCADIA.
30. 30.WHEN POMONA SHARED HER APPLES.
31. 31.HOW PSYCHE REACHED MOUNT OLYMPUS.
32. 32.HOW MELAMPOS FED THE SERPENT.
33. 33.HOW A HUNTRESS BECAME A BEAR.
34. 34.THE ADVENTURE OF GLAUCUS.
35. 35.THE WINNING OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE.
36. 36.MEDEA'S CALDRON.
37. 37.HOW A GOLDEN APPLE CAUSED A WAR.
38. 38.HOW A WOODEN HORSE WON A CITY.
39. 39.[3] THE CYCLOPS. — FOOTNOTE:
40. 40.GLOSSARY.

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