Profiles of major goddesses from human history include the stories of the Greek goddess of wisdom, Athena; Tara, the Tibetan goddess of wisdom; and Benzai-Ten, the Japanese goddess of beauty and music, in a young reader's introduction complemented by twenty-six lavish watercolor illustrations.

When a seal that she had helped when she was a child suddenly turns into a handsome prince, eighteen-year-old Princess Grainne must choose between the seal-man she loves and her duty toward her own people.

A beautifully illustrated retelling of a Greek myth recounts how Persephone was abducted by Pluto to live in Hades as his queen and how her mother, Demeter, the harvest goddess, clothed Earth in winter until her daughter returned.

A picture-book version of the ballet famed for its Stravinsky music depicts the plight of Prince Ivan after a magnificent firebird gives him a magical feather with which he tries to rescue the Princess Elena.