Classic Starts®: The Odyssey

Author: Arthur Pober

Myth & legend told as fiction

Published on 30 July 2026 by Union Square & Co. (Union Square Kids) in the United States.

Hardback | 160 pages, 10 b/w illus.
198 x 140 | 260g

An abridged and illustrated chapter book retelling of The Odyssey, part of the bestselling Classic Starts series that has sold more than 8 million copies!Homer's epic tale of the warrior Odysseus's decades-long struggle to return home after the Trojan War is simply and beautifully retold, with all the drama intact. Young readers will thrill at Odysseus's adventures with the man-eating Cyclops; the enchantress Circe, who turns his crew into pigs; and the angry sea god Poseidon.