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Gaia

Goddess of Earth

Imogen Greenberg author Isabel Greenberg illustrator

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:14th Apr '22

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Discover the action-packed story of Gaia, the ancient Greek goddess of Earth, as she strives to protect the natural world from the destructive power of the gods

Imagine you made something that was so beautiful and powerful that everyone wanted to take it for themselves. And then you had to watch them destroy it. Would you fight for it?

Meet Gaia, the ancient Greek goddess who created the Earth and the universe that stretched beyond it. She raised trees from their roots to the sky, sent waterfalls tumbling over cliffs and created the tides that sloshed on the shore. She gifted her creation to animals and mortals, and watched as they made it their home.

But she also created a force she couldn’t control: the ambition of gods. Gaia watched as the gods fought brutal wars and manipulated mortals such as Hercules and Achilles, disturbing peace on Earth. Storms raged, fires blazed and people, animals and plants suffered. Gaia begged the gods to look after her creation, but no one listened.

But Gaia never gave up fighting for a better world. This is her story.

Written and illustrated by two remarkable sisters, Imogen and Isabel Greenberg, this story is an exciting and action-packed adventure, with a poignant environmental message at the heart of it: the pursuit of power damages our natural world, and we all have to work together to protect it.

For 6+ mythology fans, this story of the Greek goddess who created Earth – then watched, dismayed, as generations of gods ravaged it – is thrillingly told and illustrated in comic-style panels, with the three Fates commenting snarkily from the borders. -- Imogen Russell Williams * The Guardian *

ISBN: 9781526625700

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 744g

64 pages