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Little Goddess Girls #2
Persephone & the Giant Flowers
Little Athena and Persephone travel to meet the great and powerful Zeus in this Wizard of Oz inspired Little Goddess Girls story—part of the Aladdin QUIX line!After dropping onto the Hello Brick Road, little Athena and her new friend, the flowery Persephone, are on their way to meet the great and powerful Zeus at the top of magical Mount Olympus. While Athena is looking for help getting back home, Persephone would love to have Zeus cure her bad luck-itis and give her the gift of good luck so she can help her favorite flowers grow big and strong!
97 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 17, 2019
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Joan Holub
370 books1,234 followersNY Times bestselling children's book author:
GODDESS GIRLS series + HEROES IN TRAINING series (w Suzanne Williams); THIS LITTLE TRAILBLAZER a Girl Power Primer; ZERO THE HERO; I AM THE SHARK. Lucky to be doing what I love!
GODDESS GIRLS series + HEROES IN TRAINING series (w Suzanne Williams); THIS LITTLE TRAILBLAZER a Girl Power Primer; ZERO THE HERO; I AM THE SHARK. Lucky to be doing what I love!
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June 4, 2022
Pointless, brainless drivel. There is a reason Greek mythology has fascinated and inspired people through the millenia, and it's not because Greek goddesses were meek little girls defined by their hair color and generally their looks, as this book would have you believe. It's not because they walked down the "orange, blue, and pink Hello Brick Road" toward Mount Olympus' rainbow-colored Sparkle City. An owl named Pink Tail? Give me a break!
The authors copied the most superficial of concepts from the Greeks, sprinkled in a little of Frank L. Baum's Wizard of Oz, hit the start button on their Rainbows-and-Butterflies-Sparkle-Blender to turn the whole thing into utter vapid garbage, and called it a day. The publisher might just as well have routed the paper straight to the recycling plant instead of wasting it on this sorry project.
The authors copied the most superficial of concepts from the Greeks, sprinkled in a little of Frank L. Baum's Wizard of Oz, hit the start button on their Rainbows-and-Butterflies-Sparkle-Blender to turn the whole thing into utter vapid garbage, and called it a day. The publisher might just as well have routed the paper straight to the recycling plant instead of wasting it on this sorry project.
April 12, 2023
Rating: 1.5 stars
OK, ok, I know this is a book for small children, but I really wanna know what the authors were smoking when they came up with this story.
For those not initiated into the world of "Goddess Girls" (get it, Persephone? initiated? Eleusinian Mysteries? hahahahahahahha I'm a geek), "Goddess Girls" is a bestselling lower-middle-grade series where figures from Greek mythology are aged down to 11 and 12 and depicted as students at "Mount Olympus Academy." If you didn't want to imagine the Greek Gods as middle schoolers, well, neither did I, but these books are actually super cute- I love their depictions of the Kore goddesses. I think they're a solid introduction to Greek mythology, and that's the hill I will die on.
So imagine my surprise, then, when I find out that the authors have come out with a spin-off series, Little Goddess Girls, for younger readers. Would it be any good?
Haha no.
This book made me feel like I was trapped in a fever dream. All 82 pages of it. I thought this was supposed to be a Greek mythology retelling, but apparently it's a repackaged version of the Wizard of Oz?? Like seriously, what is going on here?
Some of this book's most egregious crimes include:
- Athena is Dorothy, complete with a little white dog named Oliver (Toto). She's even in search of her home after being displaced by a "magical sparkly storm."
- Zeus is a wish-granter who lives at the top of Sparkle City?
- Demeter was completely absent from these books, which is sad because I really loved her in the original Goddess Girls books.
- Hestia is a tiny, sparkling pink fairy. WTF.
- Our heroes are journeying down the "Hello Brick Road." Yes, actually
- Again, I know Persephone is (supposedly) a smart and capable 8 year old girl, but where are her parents? Was she immaculately conceived by a flower or something?
- Athena has a pair of flying sandals. Make this make sense.
- The Underworld is called "The Wunderworld." Alice in Wonderland reference?? Make this make sense.
- While visiting The Wunderworld, Persephone befriends a bunch of giant flowers. They like her so much that they curl around her and sing a song about how they never want her to leave. Then she's miraculously saved... by Hades and Aphrodite??
- Medusa is the Wicked Witch.
- Giggling. What was it with the giggling in this book? I counted, and Persephone giggles over 10 times. She giggles when she's nervous, scared, happy, confused, everything. I wanted to shake her by the shoulders.
- None of the little goddesses in this book had any spine. Even Athena had about as much personality as a wet paper towel. At least Aphrodite was kind of funny.
All in all, I'm still recovering from this book. I feel like my brain has been coated with sparkly pink goo and needs a powerwash. If 8-year-old-me (a Greek mythology fanatic) had found this book, I think she would've been both confused and deeply offended.
*Giving this an extra 1/2 star because little red-haired Kore Persephone was actually really adorable in this art style.
OK, ok, I know this is a book for small children, but I really wanna know what the authors were smoking when they came up with this story.
For those not initiated into the world of "Goddess Girls" (get it, Persephone? initiated? Eleusinian Mysteries? hahahahahahahha I'm a geek), "Goddess Girls" is a bestselling lower-middle-grade series where figures from Greek mythology are aged down to 11 and 12 and depicted as students at "Mount Olympus Academy." If you didn't want to imagine the Greek Gods as middle schoolers, well, neither did I, but these books are actually super cute- I love their depictions of the Kore goddesses. I think they're a solid introduction to Greek mythology, and that's the hill I will die on.
So imagine my surprise, then, when I find out that the authors have come out with a spin-off series, Little Goddess Girls, for younger readers. Would it be any good?
Haha no.
This book made me feel like I was trapped in a fever dream. All 82 pages of it. I thought this was supposed to be a Greek mythology retelling, but apparently it's a repackaged version of the Wizard of Oz?? Like seriously, what is going on here?
Some of this book's most egregious crimes include:
- Athena is Dorothy, complete with a little white dog named Oliver (Toto). She's even in search of her home after being displaced by a "magical sparkly storm."
- Zeus is a wish-granter who lives at the top of Sparkle City?
- Demeter was completely absent from these books, which is sad because I really loved her in the original Goddess Girls books.
- Hestia is a tiny, sparkling pink fairy. WTF.
- Our heroes are journeying down the "Hello Brick Road." Yes, actually
- Again, I know Persephone is (supposedly) a smart and capable 8 year old girl, but where are her parents? Was she immaculately conceived by a flower or something?
- Athena has a pair of flying sandals. Make this make sense.
- The Underworld is called "The Wunderworld." Alice in Wonderland reference?? Make this make sense.
- While visiting The Wunderworld, Persephone befriends a bunch of giant flowers. They like her so much that they curl around her and sing a song about how they never want her to leave. Then she's miraculously saved... by Hades and Aphrodite??
- Medusa is the Wicked Witch.
- Giggling. What was it with the giggling in this book? I counted, and Persephone giggles over 10 times. She giggles when she's nervous, scared, happy, confused, everything. I wanted to shake her by the shoulders.
- None of the little goddesses in this book had any spine. Even Athena had about as much personality as a wet paper towel. At least Aphrodite was kind of funny.
All in all, I'm still recovering from this book. I feel like my brain has been coated with sparkly pink goo and needs a powerwash. If 8-year-old-me (a Greek mythology fanatic) had found this book, I think she would've been both confused and deeply offended.
*Giving this an extra 1/2 star because little red-haired Kore Persephone was actually really adorable in this art style.
July 5, 2025
Di sini Athena dan Persephone masuk ke wilayah Hades dan bertemu dengan bunga-bunga raksasa yang bisa bernyanyi. Mereka juga ketemu sama Aphrodite yang disihir Medusa hingga terkurung di kerang laut gara-gara mengejek rambut Medusa. Aphrodite pun bergabung dengan dua gadis ini karena berharap Zeus bisa memberinya anugerah supaya ia lebih disukai orang lain. Hahaha, habis mulutnya tajam, sih.
February 20, 2026
This was a quick read. It was okay. I didn't love it, and I didn't hate it. I was curious going in as to how they'd handle the Persephone and Hades interactions. Their interactions were handled pretty much by not having them interact. Honestly, it doesn't feel like much happened in this book. I'll check out the next volume in the series, but I don't think I'll continue with it after that.
May 30, 2024
Read to my three year old — she loved the flowers, dogs, best friends, and “uh oh” moments. Fun, quick, but longer than a picture book read. We will probably keep reading this series to help teach our kids not all books have pictures on every page, and this will help lengthen attention span.
April 30, 2020
I LOVED this book! It was funny, cute, well written AND illustrated, and there was friendship involved throughout the WHOLE book! I would recommend this book for girls the ages of 7-9.
December 20, 2021
Cute spin on The Wizard ofOz
March 25, 2025
My 4 year old devoured this in one sitting and the series really seems to be holding her attention, but book #2 had very little substance and negligible educational elements
August 15, 2020
Really easy read, big words with few pages in the chapters. Beginner reader with a great Wizard of Oz inspired stories with the gods and goddesses. I started with this second book and kinda wished I had started with the first. Things are referenced, although a kid may not realize it.
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