BEASTS OF OLYMPUS: HOUND OF HADES

Book ID/图书代码： 13005415B77334

English Summary/英文概要： Demon is sick. He ate too many honey cakes at the party celebrating his new job as beast keeper to the gods. But the animals still need to be cared for and there is a visitor coming to the stables who may or may not be the goddess Hera. The last time he saw Hera she threatened to turn him into a lump of charcoal. It’s just not easy being stableboy to a bunch of demanding and petulant deities. But when the visitor arrives it’s not Hera but Hades, and with him he has brought some rather dangerous earth dragons who need meat. Where on Olympus can he find meat? If that task wasn’t hard enough, next Hades orders Demon to follow him to the underworld, where his pet dog, Cerberus, is feeling poorly...

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 人果然不能太得意啊！最近，小德蒙突然病倒了！为了庆祝他的走马上任，小德蒙在庆功宴上吃了太多的蜂蜜蛋糕。真是“物极必反”啊！但是，神兽们仍然需要每天照顾；更棘手的是，马厩里即将迎来一位不速之客的造访，也许这位客人是赫拉（主神宙斯之妻），但是谁也说不准。最后一次遇见赫拉的时候，她甚至威胁要把他变成一块木炭。在众神殿里伺候着一群百般挑剔、喜怒无常的神灵们真不是一件容易的差事啊！当这位不速之客踏进马厩的那一刻起，小德蒙简直惊呆了！因为那不是赫拉而是地狱之王——哈德斯！更令人害怕的是，他居然牵着几条相当危险的地龙进来；而且他们还需要每天吃肉！真是黔驴技穷啊！在奥林匹斯山这个地方，他上哪儿去弄肉呢? 如果这项任务还不算难的话, 稍后，诡计多端的哈德斯将派小德蒙跟着他前往阴曹地府，侍奉他的哮天犬——可怜的刻耳柏洛斯，我们的小德蒙可以招架得住吗？ (Susie)

Awards/获奖情况：A sparky new series ... adventure, friendship and fabulous beasts abound. --The Bookseller

The rumbustious tone is perfect for reading aloud. David Roberts are vigorously zany and both BEAST KEEPER and HOUND OF HADES are fun for myth-mad kids of seven plus --New Statesman

Hilarious misadventures --Metro

Publishers Weekly *STARRED* review
‘In this rippingly funny first book in the Beasts of Olympus series, readers get an alternate perspective on classic Greek myths as Demon tends to the Cretan Bull, Hydra, and other creatures that have suffered at the hands of gods and heroes—especially Heracles (“Nice people did NOT go around pulling skins off poor innocent lions”). Bean’s dynamic cartoons amp up the comedy and drama, while a glossary and pronunciation guide round out a story that, underneath its fun, offers food for thought on everything from absentee parenting to the mistreatment of animals (even immortal ones).’

The Bookseller
‘A sparky new series ... adventure, friendship and fabulous beasts abound.’

The School Librarian Magazine
‘Coats’s wonderful storytelling ability is evident from the beginning…the young reader is treated to a list of phrases that cry to be read aloud…then rich poetic description. This is the first in a series of Greek Myths that children will clamour to read.’

The New Statesman (Amanda Craig)
The rumbustious tone is perfect for reading aloud [and] David Roberts’s illustrations are vigorously zany… Fun for myth-mad kids of seven-plus.’

About the Author/作者介绍： LUCY COATS是英国首屈一指的童书大师。在成为全职作家之前，她是一名童书编辑并且在一家书店工作。迄今为止，她已经为各个年龄层的读者们编写了二十多本叫好又叫座的书籍，受到了大批读者的热烈追捧！她出生于英国南部的汉普郡, 在爱丁堡大学攻读英语和历史专业,在那里她遇见了自己的丈夫, 现在，他们的两个孩子已经成年了，皆是她的忠实粉丝。LUCY从孩童时期开始就对希腊神话产生了浓厚的兴趣，她的大部分作品都是以希腊神话作为题材的。

LUCY COATS worked as a children’s editor and bookseller before turning to full-time writing, and is the author of more than twenty-five titles for all ages. Lucy was born in Hampshire and read English and Ancient History at Edinburgh University, which is where she met her husband, with whom she has two grown up children, both keen readers. Lucy read her first book of Greek myths at the age of seven, and has been hooked on myths of all kinds ever since.

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Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE

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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：Italy (Piemme)

So far the translation rights have been sold in the UK (Piccadilly Press), US (Penguin), Italy (Piemme) and France (Hachette Jeunesse). There is significant interest from elsewhere and material is currently out on submission with other publishers around the world. I will send you more news as and when we have it.

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