Books by Joan Holub
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review 1: Little Red Writing is a wonderful book for young readers. Within the story is another story written in a style often found in comic books. Although this creates a busy setting, the book creates a stimulating environment with a lot of detail. However, if the reader is not a fan of...
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review 1: For Ten-Year-Old Zeus, life on the Greek island of Crete is megaboring except for stormy days when sizzling lightning bolts hunt him. It has a voice whispers to him said "You are the one." He doesn't know what does it mean. He need to escape those pesky electric shocks. One day, ...
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review 1: {My Thoughts} – Persephone is one of Athena’s closest friends. However, she isn’t as un-masked around Athena and the other girls as she is around a Godboy named Hades. Persephone seems to like that she can be her own dreary, emo like self when she is around Hades, and she doesn’t...
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review 1: True rating: 3.5 stars.A little too many puns, not all of which work (like "masketball"). But it's fun to meet the old familiar fairy tale characters and see how the authors' imaginations reshape them and their environment. Cinda, the only character with any real development, whi...
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review 1: {My Thoughts} – Zero the Hero is a Hero in every sense of the word. He is the number Zero and he is needed to solve math equations that wouldn’t be able to be solved without him. Zero the Hero goes through the book feeling like he is a nothing a no number because in a sense he is...
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review 1: {My thoughts} – I was one of those children growing up that enjoyed watching shows like Xena and Hercules. They were even more fun to watch when they did crossovers. It doesn’t surprise me that I have really enjoyed reading this book. It is based on Greek Mythology and it is incr...
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review 1: A cute story, but I did not enjoy this book as much as it's predecessor (Persephone the Phony). As a lover of mythology, I know that Aphrodite is the goddess of beauty and love, and is almost always portrayed as shallow and vain - so to see this character have some of these trait...
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review 1: Okay so I was stuck sick in my parents bed and had none of my books near me. Being sick, I really was not up to getting up and getting one. Hence, I borrowed my father's kindle as it was on te table next to me. Most of the books were adventure stories, but mainly directed at adul...
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review 1: Endlich sind Hades und Persephone wieder an der Reihe, ich hab sie so vermisst. Sie und Hades sind meine Lieblings Charaktere in der gesamten Reihe. Diesmal wird ihre "Romanze" auf eine harte Probe gestellt. Persephone nimmt eine Mutprobe an, die ungeahnte Konsequenzen hat und mu...
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review 1: the book was horrible. I have read real greek mythology and the only thing near perfect was that zeus was hidden by his mother rhea. yet the book messes that up by adding a bee. I have read the other books and that is also incorrect. Apollo and Ares are the children of Zeus, not ...
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review 1: Aphrodite battles with the Egyptian Goddess of Love by trying to find a guy's true love, which they later find out that it was a stone statue he himself carved. Aphrodite finds the statue and casts a spell that does not work, the other goddess tweaks the spell a little bit so the...
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review 1: Read this based on the recommendation of Tess, one of my new fourth graders. The first in the Goddess Girls series. Really adorable premise about a school for young gods and goddesses on Mount Olympus. A lot of mythologically accurate Greek mythology mixed in with regular kid ...
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review 1: When Athena gets a letter from Zeus stating that she'll be going to school at Mount Olympus Academy she couldn't be more excited except for leaving her best friend Pallas of course. I mean what could be more exciting besides becoming and going to school with goddesses and godboys...
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review 1: I think this book is better than 4 stars but not as good as 5 stars so really i give this book 4 and a half stars! This book makes you want to read more and it has a twist at the end but more in the middle until almost the end the books lacks excitement its kind of typical things...
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review 1: In this Goddess Girls book the Olympics have come to MOA! There's only one problem; GIRLS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO COMPETE! The girls decide to create a separate olympics JUST for girls but will any boys sign their petition. Meanwhile giants arrive at MOA their hearts set on competing ...
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review 1: My 10 year old daughter and I (the Mom) read and reviewed this book for Mother Daughter Book Reviews. Here are excerpts from our reviews. To see the complete reviews, please visit our website.DAUGHTER SAYS:The book is about a girl named Cassandra who is a mortal but is able to ...
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review 1: This is part of the Goddess Girl series by Joan Holub and Suzanne Williams that I absolutely LOVE! I've kept up with the regular series, but this "super special" publication is not part of their regular series, but a side story. The story focuses on the fact that the girls of MOA...
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review 1: I love the Goddess Girls books
review 2: This book was good but not my favorite because of all the personality changes
review 2: This book was good but not my favorite because of all the personality changes
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review 1: Using a construction-zone theme, this picture book explores the relationships between fathers and their children. For example, Big Excavator helps his child while they dig, Big Bulldozer shows his child right from wrong as they scoop, and Big Crane keeps his child safe as they re...
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review 1: Join eight groundhogs (and one determined skunk!) as they learn all about forecasting the weather and the coming of spring.This was a fairly fascinating read. I had NO IDEA there were other famous prognosticating rodents out there in addition to Punxsutawney Phil, but say hello ...
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review 1: I am here to admit, I love Ms. Holub’s and Ms. William’s Series The “Goddess Girls” and when I saw the chance to get to review their newest series “The Grimmtastic Girls” I jumped at it. Plus, I think a lot of boys enjoy reading books that are kind of written for girls anyway an...
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review 1: This was pretty good for its intended audience. There were lots of pictures, which was distracting for me but kids will probably like them. There was one good drawing of Carroll Spinney inside Big Bird that I thought was interesting. And there are mini-chapters about other thi...
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review 1: I think this may have been more clever than the first. We're still getting the story through the eyes of Zeus, "clueless godboy" according to Pythia at the beginning of the book. But we've added more characters in Hera and Poseidon--who, by the way, can't swim and thinks he'll ...
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review 1: Lots of action and plenty of mythology and puns make this a very fun, fast read or read-aloud for early elementary grades (par for the course, considering one of the authors wrote Library Lil.). Although this is the third in the series, it was just fine to start with--major event...
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review 1: How many times have we been faced with little ones that aren’t really happy with the word no or the phrase not now. Pandora is put to the test when her mother asks her kindly not to touch the box. However, she realizes quickly that she must touch the box. Well maybe not touch ...