The Winged Girl of Knossos
Author:
Erick Berry
Illustrator:
Erick Berry
Publication:
1934 by D. Appleton-Century Company
Genre:
Adventure, Fiction, Historic Tales and Legends, Mythology
Pages:
253
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Inas leaps at adventure. She dives to the bottom of the Aegean sea to harvest sponges and somersaults over charging bulls in front of thousands of people. Best of all, she soars from cliffs wearing the glider-wings her father builds in secret, safe from the prying eyes of their neighbors, who think flying is sorcery.
When Princess Ariadne seeks Inas's help to hatch a plan with Theseus, a young Greek who's held prisoner in the palace's Labyrinth, Inas doesn't realize how much adventure she is taking on. In fact, Inas suddenly finds that she may be about to lose everything she holds dear on the island of Crete.
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The Winged Girl of Knossos
Reviewed by Sherry Early
Erick Berry was the pen name of author, illustrator, and editor Evangel Allena Champlin Best. She wrote this book, based on the Greek myths about Icarus, Theseus, Ariadne, and Daidalos, and interestingly enough, for this female author with a male pseudonym, she turns Icarus, Daidalos’ son, into a daughter named Inas.
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