Reddit reviews D'aulaire's Book of Greek Myths

I always recommend this each time this question is asked:

d'Aulaires Book of Greek Myths

https://www.amazon.com/Daulaires-Greek-Myths-Ingri-dAulaire/dp/0385015836/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

It’s sumptuously illustrated, comprehensive but not exhaustive, barely sanitized but reasonably adapted for younger readers while still being thorough and honest with its treatment of the characters for adults, weaving everything logically and chronologically from the creation myths all the way through the Trojan War.

I can’t recommend this book highly enough. It’s great for kids, and great on a coffee table, and it’s great on a night stand. Do yourself and spend the $20 for the hardback and enjoy the ever loving heck out this perfect introduction to Greek mythology.

If you’d like a slightly more comprehensive set of recommendations for primary tests (such as the partial lists recommended elsewhere in this thread) I’d be happy to do that too!

I'm atheist, wife is agnostic/nonreligious. Her family is devout catholic, mine is baptist.

I'm pretty strict in my atheism. I don't flaunt it, but I don't suffer fools either. So there have been discussions when I see family attempting to indoctrinate my son's trusting mind.

Early on, we decided not to sacrifice relationships over this. But instead of focusing on staying away from Christianity, we've flooded him with all the legend, myth and story we can shovel into him. I'm a b ig fan of Irish Myth, and the Cuchalain stories are fantastic. I was also recommended In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World in this forum and D'aulaire's Book of Greek Myths which is his favorite book right now.

Our tact will be to make him drink from a firehose so that it's all just stories and nothing will have the opportunity to take hold until we can better explain the virtues and pitfalls of dogmas.

I wasn't able to find a single series that I liked. The one that comes up first on Amazon is the National Geographic "Treasuries" series, but those bring a strong western bias, talks down about the 'barbarians' who believed those things, and ultimately tried to reconcile the myths of other cultures with Christianity. Which totally defeats the purpose of teaching mythology in the first place. So I ended up curating my own collection of books that were a bit more objective and unbiased.

Here's a couple that I settled on:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0763663158
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0689868855
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0385015836
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0804838070
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1573060798

We are currently enjoying this classic: D'aulaire's Book of Greek Myths. My daughter especially likes the story of Perseus (includes medusa, princess andomeda and pegasus)