- Corydon and the Island of Monsters
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Corydon and the Island of Monsters is the first instalment of the Corydon Trilogy, penned by Tobias Druitt; a pseudonym for a mother-son writing combination. It was published in the United Kingdom by Simon and Schuster in 2005, and in the United States by A. A. Knopf in 2006, and distributed by Random House.
The book draws on classical Greek mythology and follows Corydon, an outcast boy, neglected because of his goat foot. According to WorldCat, almost 500 libraries have copies of the book.[1]
Corydon and the Island of Monsters has been translated into Czech as Corydon a ostrov příšer (Millennium Publishing, 2008) and into French as Corydon et l'île aux monstres (Tourbillon, 2009).
References
Categories:- 2005 novels
- Young adult fantasy novels
- British young adult novels
- British fantasy novels
- Greco-Roman mythology in popular culture
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