THE CURSED CARNIVAL AND OTHER CALAMITIES: NEW STORIES ABOUT MYTHIC HEROES includes 10 stories from 10 different traditions and ten authors. Besides learning about myths and folklore, readers visit the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in the story by Kwame Mbalia (the Tristan Strong series) and learn about some American heroes: Medgar Evers, Ida B. In other stories, protagonists are attacked and injured by snakes, creepy ghosts (one with no face), giants, rock monsters throwing boulders, ancient demon monsters, a shapeshifting cave creature, a cursed drum, and puking unicorns. People are killed with spears and drowned, fights break out resulting in concussions and broken limbs, and a kid kills a giant boar. Riordan's Celtic story includes the most violence. Readers will be most engaged with the tales that include the characters they've already read about in the original series, otherwise they could get a little lost. Rick Riordan is the exception to this, authoring the last story about Celtic mythology (he spent 2020 getting his master's in Gaelic literature). Parents need to know that The Cursed Carnival and Other Calamities: New Stories about Mythic Heroes is a collection of 10 short stories by 10 authors who write series for the Rick Riordan Presents imprint, which highlights authors of color who write about their own folklore and mythology traditions.
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