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Little Goddess Girls #4
Artemis & the Awesome Animals
Join little Artemis for a Wizard of Oz–inspired adventure in this fourth Little Goddess Girls story.
All Artemis wants is the gift of courage. There are a lot of scary things out there! With the help of her new friends—Athena, Persephone, and Aphrodite—Artemis hopes she can ask the super-duper-powerful Zeus to help her be a little less afraid. But the mean green girl, Medusa, has other plans. Can Artemis dig deep, be brave, and help her friends find their way to Sparkle City? With the help of some animals who aren’t what they seem, Artemis just might end up being an unexpected hero!
All Artemis wants is the gift of courage. There are a lot of scary things out there! With the help of her new friends—Athena, Persephone, and Aphrodite—Artemis hopes she can ask the super-duper-powerful Zeus to help her be a little less afraid. But the mean green girl, Medusa, has other plans. Can Artemis dig deep, be brave, and help her friends find their way to Sparkle City? With the help of some animals who aren’t what they seem, Artemis just might end up being an unexpected hero!
- GenresFantasyChapter Books
96 pages, Paperback
Published May 19, 2020
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About the author
Joan Holub
370 books1,235 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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Displaying 1 - 7 of 7 reviews
June 4, 2023
I liked this book because it talked about magical things and I like magical things.👼🏻
December 4, 2025
Underwhelming! I was looking for a new juvenile fiction series to read aloud with my young elementary aged kid, and loved the idea of getting into Greek mythology with her. Several issues…
The books have no numbering or indication of order on the outside or inside as far as I can see, so I thought they must be random episodes (not serialized) and the order didn’t matter. I only found out from goodreads that this was book #4! It was disappointing to read this one first, with so many references to things that happened in previous books. I can’t imagine why the publishers chose not to print numbers on the spines, like every other J Fic series we’ve read?
There was much less Greek mythology and SO much more Wizard of Oz than I was hoping. If I wanted to read my kid the Wizard of Oz, I would do that! Again, nothing on the outside or flaps said anything about that other well known story — though I did find it addressed in the author’s note after I read the first chapter. I wanted to read my kid about Greek myths and girl heros, not the “hello brick road” and flying monkeys.
I was really unimpressed with the “gifts” the authors had the girls seeking. The worst offender was “likability” 😒 What on earth were they hoping to teach young female readers with this — that likeability is some specific thing you either have or don’t, and no one will like you if you don’t have it? Yuck. I interrupted reading to have multiple conversations with my kid about how that character already had friends in the book… She had found her people, and she was obviously already “likable”. Let’s not teach the kids there’s some specific threshold for likeability and beat that concept like a drum throughout the book, okay? (I kept hoping maybe she would hear in the end that, “you’ve always been likeable! You just needed to believe in yourself!” But alas no. Pretty retro verging on misogynistic.)
Finally this was skewed a lot younger than I was hoping. My kid already reads books at least this level on her own, and I try to read her books with more sophisticated language. I see there are also novels and graphic novels in this same universe? But given my other disappointments, not sure if I’ll bother picking them up.
Publishers: please number the books in a series! It’s really not that hard 🥲
The books have no numbering or indication of order on the outside or inside as far as I can see, so I thought they must be random episodes (not serialized) and the order didn’t matter. I only found out from goodreads that this was book #4! It was disappointing to read this one first, with so many references to things that happened in previous books. I can’t imagine why the publishers chose not to print numbers on the spines, like every other J Fic series we’ve read?
There was much less Greek mythology and SO much more Wizard of Oz than I was hoping. If I wanted to read my kid the Wizard of Oz, I would do that! Again, nothing on the outside or flaps said anything about that other well known story — though I did find it addressed in the author’s note after I read the first chapter. I wanted to read my kid about Greek myths and girl heros, not the “hello brick road” and flying monkeys.
I was really unimpressed with the “gifts” the authors had the girls seeking. The worst offender was “likability” 😒 What on earth were they hoping to teach young female readers with this — that likeability is some specific thing you either have or don’t, and no one will like you if you don’t have it? Yuck. I interrupted reading to have multiple conversations with my kid about how that character already had friends in the book… She had found her people, and she was obviously already “likable”. Let’s not teach the kids there’s some specific threshold for likeability and beat that concept like a drum throughout the book, okay? (I kept hoping maybe she would hear in the end that, “you’ve always been likeable! You just needed to believe in yourself!” But alas no. Pretty retro verging on misogynistic.)
Finally this was skewed a lot younger than I was hoping. My kid already reads books at least this level on her own, and I try to read her books with more sophisticated language. I see there are also novels and graphic novels in this same universe? But given my other disappointments, not sure if I’ll bother picking them up.
Publishers: please number the books in a series! It’s really not that hard 🥲
July 23, 2020
Greek Goddesses + The Wizard of Oz.
A little bizarre, but enjoyable. Would have been more enjoyable if I had realized this was the 4th book in the series, but easy enough to follow along.
A little bizarre, but enjoyable. Would have been more enjoyable if I had realized this was the 4th book in the series, but easy enough to follow along.
October 8, 2024
Hestia rocks!
March 25, 2025
My four year old happily read this in one sitting… but this is the straw that broke the camel’s back for me on ripping off the wizard of oz. The flying monkeys were TOO much.
December 15, 2025
So cute.
January 18, 2021
I read this to my 4-year old, who enjoyed it, but the plot felt really convoluted. The series is a riff on Wizard of Oz with Greek mythology thrown in - an odd mix.
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