Sacred Myths: Stories of World Religions

Your children (and you) will fall into this book. Even before the stories begin, the illustrations envelop you in their lush, exotic worlds, where enchanted lakes yield treasure, virgins give birth, and elephants hold up the world. Marilyn McFarlane retells five classic stories in each of seven major religious traditions: Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Native American and a miscellaneous category of Greek and other pagan myths she calls Sacred Earth. Many you'll recognize -- David and Goliath, the Loaves and the Fishes, the Buddha and the Bodhi Tree -- and others will be as fresh and captivating to you as they are to your children. Appends useful Pronunciation Guide, Glossary and list of Further Reading.