Κοινότητα Αναγνωστών Βιβλίων - readers.gr

Two Athenian citizens, Pisthetairus and Euelpides, fed up with their home town, set out in search of a peaceful place to live. They persuade the birds to build a city between heaven and earth and act as mediators between the people and their gods. Will their clash with the gods bring them the happiness they desire?

Chremylus, a poor Athenian, visits the oracle of Delphi to ask how he should raise his son. Following the god's prophecy, he persuades the first man he meets outside to come to his house. The blind and ragged old man proves to be Plutus, the god of wealth himself! Chremylus decides to make sure the old man gets his eyesight back, so that he may help only the just and the virtuous from then on. However, not everyone is happy with this plan...

The vine grower Trygaeus rides a giant beetle up to the heavens to ask Zeus when the Spartans and the Athenians will stop fighting each other. Once there, he finds out that the gods have abandoned the people and that War holds Peace as his hostage. With the help of his fellow countrymen, Trygaeus will try to free Peace and bring her back to earth.

Fed up with the successive wars that keep men away from their homes, strong-willed Athenian Lysistrata assembles women from the major Greek city-states and tells them of her plan to reinstate peace once and for all. The women agree to stop serving their husbands and head home. Then the Athenian women take over the city's treasury in the Acropolis, determined not to back down until they get what they're asking for, that is the end of all wars. Do they even stand a chance to win this battle?

Και ποιος δεν έχει παίξει κρυφτό, κουτσό, μπίκο, κυνηγητό; Μέσα στις σελίδες αυτού του βιβλίου παρουσιάζονται εκατό επιλεγμένα παραδοσιακά παιδικά παιχνίδια από όλη την Ελλάδα. Μια έκδοση που έχει σαν σκοπό να μας "ξαναγυρίσει" μερικά χρόνια πίσω, τότε που είμασταν παιδιά και παίζαμε όλοι μαζί στις αλάνες, τις πλατείες, την αυλή του σχολείου ή όπου μπορούσε να στηθεί εύκολα το παιχνίδι. Ας ξαναθυμηθούμε λοιπόν τα εκατό δημοφιλέστερα παιχνίδια και ας τα μεταδώσουμε στα σημερινά παιδιά. Και να είστε σίγουροι ότι η παιδαγωγικότητα αυτών των παιχνιδιών κρύβεται στους κανόνες...