When Psyche fails to trust that love, she must perform seemingly impossible tasks to win Cupid back. She sends her son, Cupid, to punish the mortal, but he falls in love with her. Reading Level: Picture Books, ages 4-8 Recommended For: Ages 4-8 and up Several thousand years ago the ancient Greeks and Romans told an early version of Beauty and the Beast, the myth of Cupid and Psyche. Craft's first book is a retelling of the famous story of Psyche, who is so beautiful that Venus, the goddess of beauty, is jealous. In the city of Hypata, indeed, nothing seemed to be its true self.~'You might think that through the murmuring of some cadaverous spell, all things had been changed into forms not their own that there was humanity in the hardness of the stones you you stumbled on that the birds you heard singing were feathered men.'. Charlotte Craft and illustrated by Kinuko Y. ~'The scene of the romance was laid in Thessaly, the original land of witchcraft, and took one up and down its mountains, and into its old weird towns, haunts of magic and incantation, where all the more genuine appliances of the black art, left behind her by Medea when she fled through that country, were still in use. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. Charlotte Craft (1996, Hardcover) at the best online prices at eBay Free shipping for many products Cupid and Psyche by M. no slipcase (originally came in a slipcase). Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Cupid and Psyche by M.

Brown & gilt decorative cloth hardcover 8vo. First-time author Marie Charlotte Craft and her mother, award-winning illustrator Kinuko Craft combine detailed oil-over-watercolor paintings and easy-to-read text to introduce the story of the arrow-shooting Cupid, god of love, and the beautiful Princess Psyche to younger readers. Cupid (Roman deity) Psyche is the most beautiful woman in the world, yet the oracle at Delphi foresees she will fall in love with a creature feared by the gods themselves.

Cupid and Psyche by M. Charlotte Craft