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By Carole Henaff (illustrator)

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9781846867842 | Barefoot Books, May 1, 2013, cover price $7.99

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Product Description: When Hades, the king of the Underworld, abducts young Persephone and imprisons her in his kingdom deep beneath the earth, her mother Demeter is stricken with grief. Demeter must summon a mother's bravery to rescue her daughter from Hades' clutches...read more
By Carole Henaff (illustrator)

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9781846868344 | Barefoot Books, May 1, 2013, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: When Hades, the king of the Underworld, abducts young Persephone and imprisons her in his kingdom deep beneath the earth, her mother Demeter is stricken with grief.

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Product Description: On a warm spring day, the beautiful young goddess Persephone is snatched from her home by Hades, god of the Underworld, and taken away to live underground and become his bride. Persephone's mother, Demeter, goddess of Earth, is so brokenhearted that she curses the land so nothing can grow — a permanent winter...read more
By Sally Pomme Clayton and Virginia Lee (illustrator)

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9780802853493 | Eerdmans Pub Co, January 15, 2009, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: On a warm spring day, the beautiful young goddess Persephone is snatched from her home by Hades, god of the Underworld, and taken away to live underground and become his bride.

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Product Description: The first series of Graphic Universe titles brings to life some of the most enduring myths and legends from a variety of cultures. Action-packed and richly illustrated, these age-old stories will engage readers in a new way.

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9780822565703 | Graphic Universe, February 1, 2008, cover price $8.95

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9781439533772 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, November 1, 2008), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The first series of Graphic Universe titles brings to life some of the most enduring myths and legends from a variety of cultures.

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In graphic novel format, retells the Greek myth which offers an explanation for the Earth's seasons.
By Steve Kurth (illustrator) and Barbara Schultz

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9780822559665 | Graphic Universe, February 1, 2007, cover price $27.99 | About this edition: In graphic novel format, retells the Greek myth which offers an explanation for the Earth's seasons.

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In a modern interpretation of the myth of Persephone, the young daughter of Demeter is kidnapped by the king of the underworld, and her mother declares that nothing will grow on Earth until her daughter is returned.

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9780395681923 | Houghton Mifflin, September 1, 1995, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Retells Hawthorne's adaptation of the story of the Persephone--goddess of the underworld and symbol of the death and rebirth cycle of the seasons

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A beautifully illustrated retelling of the ancient Greek myth about the seasons describes how Hades, god of the underworld, kidnaps Persephone, the daughter of the goddess Demeter, to be his wife.

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9780689506000 | Simon & Schuster, March 1, 1994, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A retelling of the ancient Greek myth about the seasons describes how Hades, god of the underworld, kidnaps Persephone, the daughter of the goddess Demeter, to be his wife

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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.

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9780803711914 | Dial Books for Young Readers, September 1, 1993, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Demeter refuses to allow spring to appear until she has been reunited with her daughter Persephone, who has been abducted to the Underworld by Pluto

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9780803711921 | Dial Books for Young Readers, September 1, 1993, cover price $14.89 | About this edition: Demeter refuses to allow spring to appear until she has been reunited with her daughter Persephone, who has been abducted to the Underworld by Pluto

A retelling of the Greek myth in which Persephone returns from the underworld each year to bring spring to the earth.

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9780671691233 | Silver Pr, August 1, 1991, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: A retelling of the Greek myth in which Persephone returns from the underworld each year to bring spring to the earth.

A retelling of the myth which was the ancient Greek explanation for the seasons

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9780688040413 | 1 edition (William Morrow & Co, April 1, 1987), cover price $12.88 | About this edition: A retelling of the myth which was the ancient Greek explanation for the seasons

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Hades, the god of the dead, falls in love with Persephone, the maiden of spring, and steals her from her mother Demeter to be his bride and queen of the underworld.

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9780893758646 | Troll Communications Llc, May 1, 1983, cover price $3.95 | About this edition: A retelling of the ancient Greek story of the vegetation goddess, her kidnapped daughter, and the origin of the seasons

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9780893758639 | Troll Communications Llc, May 1, 1983, cover price $18.60 | About this edition: A retelling of the ancient Greek story of the vegetation goddess, her kidnapped daughter, and the origin of the seasons

Staging and costume suggestions supplement this Russian version of the Persephone myth in which the daughter of Frost and Wind is given permission to live on earth but is led by love to ignore her parents' warnings

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9780138153403 | Prentice Hall, November 1, 1979, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: A Russian retelling of the Greek myth of Persephone.

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A retelling of the Greek myth in which Persephone returns from the underworld each year to bring spring to the earth.

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9780688200848 | William Morrow & Co, October 1, 1973, cover price $7.75 | About this edition: A retelling of the Greek myth in which Persephone returns from the underworld each year to bring spring to the earth.

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When Persephone is kidnapped by King Pluto, her mother, the earth goddess Demeter, refuses to bless the fields until she is returned
By Arvis L. Stewart (illustrator)

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9780316367868 | Little Brown & Co, April 1, 1973, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Retells the Greek legend that explains why Persephone brings springtime to the earth each year.

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Watercolor illustrations complement a modern translation of the narrative poem which offers a mythical explanation for the earth's seasons
By Homer and Penelope Proddow (trans)

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9780385059664 | Doubleday, November 1, 1972, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Demeter grieves when her daughter Persephone is carried off by Hades to his underworld kingdom and punishes the world until an agreement is made to share the girl.

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A retelling of the Greek myth in which Persephone returns from the underworld each year to bring spring to the earth.

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9780690614480 | Ty Crowell Co, June 1, 1971, cover price $5.50 | About this edition: A retelling of the Greek myth in which Persephone returns from the underworld each year to bring spring to the earth.

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