I've created a number of free printable PDF packages that include simple stories I've written inspired by the old Greek mythology books by Baldwin and Berens. Each story includes a few coloring page to go with it... you can see them in the thumbnail.
They're organized in the order that the myths happened.
Cronus had a rule: no child of his would ever take his throne. Rhea had a plan... a gray stone and a cave on an island where a baby could be hidden. But babies cry, and one very small Zeus had a temper that could split the sky...
The sea was calm that morning, but Poseidon was not. A ship had sailed without leaving the offering he was owed, and his silver-tailed horses felt his mood before he said a single word. Down in the crystal stable, a harness was fastened and a chariot waited...
The sea was calm and empty until the water began to bubble and the foam turned pink. Out of it stepped a young woman in a giant seashell, and everywhere she went, the sand turned green and flowers sprang up under her feet. Find out how she got her name...
Two goddesses found the same beautiful baby, and both of them wanted to keep him. Zeus made a ruling, but a jealous god of war was watching from the forest. This is the story of how one boy ended up spending his year in two different worlds...
By noon he had made the first lyre out of a tortoise shell. By evening fifty cows were walking backward into the hills, and the tracks pointed the wrong way. By morning the thief was tucked in his cradle, yawning, when his furious big brother came through the door. He was one day old and it had been a very busy day...
Nobody in Nemea went into the forest anymore. A lion the size of a small barn lived there, and every hunter who went in after it never came home. Herakles was the strongest man in Greece, and this was the first task he'd been given. His arrows were no help at all...
The river was black, the boat made no sound, and the old man at the back wanted something small and cold from every passenger. One soul stood on the shore with a coin under her tongue and watched who was allowed to cross, and who was left behind...
This isn’t a story about monsters and adventures. It’s the study of a man. Odysseus left a newborn son and a home he loved to fight in someone else’s war, then spent twenty years trying to get back, losing his crew, his faith, and pieces of himself along the way. Because it deals with loss, war and death, this section is written for teens and adults who love mythology rather than young children, and it pairs well with reading the Odyssey or listening to Epic: The Musical.
Polyphemus came home to a cave where a pail had been moved and the cheeses had been touched. He had one big eye, a stone no hundred men could budge, and no fear of the gods. The stranger hiding inside had a goatskin of wine and a very strange name...
Two armies lined up along the shore. One wore snail shells for helmets. The other carried bronze needles for spears. The gods on Olympus settled in to watch the greatest war ever fought by anyone smaller than a teacup, and nobody guessed who would end it...
