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Beasts of Olympus: Hound of Hades

by Lucy Coats, illustrated by David Roberts

Interest age: 7 to 12
Reading age: 8+

Published by Piccadilly Press, 2015

  • Funny
  • Myths and legends

About this book

Demon, son of Pan, is now installed as Official Beastkeeper to the Gods. In this entertaining and daring escapade, set in Ancient Greece, he faces further virtually impossible and terrifying tasks.

Hades, Lord of the Underworld, arrives in a chariot drawn by two humungous fire-breathing dragons which Demon has to look after. Charming the beasts with Pan's pipes and feeding them leftovers from the gods' feast, he completes the task.  Impressed, Hades summons him to the Underworld to cure his three-headed dog Cerberus whose earth-shattering sneezes are threatening to liberate the hundred-armed monsters of Tartarus …To cure Cerberus, Demon has to find ingredients ranging from a hero's toenail to a Cauldron of Healing. And he only has one day…

About the illustrator

David Roberts was born in Liverpool and studied a degree in fashion design at Manchester Metropolitan University. After university he worked as a milliner and began to get work as a fashion illustrator but always felt his true calling was in children's book illustration. After working as a shelf stacker, egg fryer, hair washer, film extra and coffee-maker David finally realised his dream of becoming a children's book illustrator when his first book Frankie Stein's Robot, written by Roy Apps, was published in 1998 and shortlisted for the Mother Goose Award for emerging illustrators.

Since then he has illustrated works by authors such as Philip Ardagh, Daren King, Julia Donaldson, Jacqueline Wilson, Tom Baker and Chris Priestley. He is also the creator of Dirty Bertie - a litle boy with bad habits.

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