Today I found a list in the handwriting of 8yr old Martin,
Centaur army weapons
bow and arrow
baseball bats
paintball guns
styrafoam hand
and hoofs
He was home sick and read the entire Sea of Monsters book in a few hours. Then I had him do some research on wikipedia to look up the real mythology of some of the characters. He made a list of the characters he could think of, then looked them up online. This didn't hold his interest for long, mythology is incredibly complicated especially for an 8yr old. He did manage to get through the labors of Hercules (Heracles in Greek).
I suspect that he made this list after reading the book and in preparation for researching Centaurs. I hope he won't be too disappointed when he discovers that Centaurs had no styrafoam, paintballs, or even baseball bats.
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