The Lightning Thief Paperback – January 1, 2006

This was AMAZING. I've long been a Rick Riordan fan but I am now mama to an 8 year old boy who HATES to read. He loves being read to, and we have started with some of the stories I was enchanted by as kind/teen/young adult.He like Harry Potter but I stumbled across this illustrated version after I read the Heroes of Olympus series for myself. I thought he would love it and I was right! He is enthralled by the pictures, which were BREATH TAKING and excited by the story line. This book is pretty advanced for average 2nd graders, lots of big words, full of Greek words because it's fiction based off of Greek Mythology. So amazing though. Everyone looked just like I had always pictured in my head!Usually we do 1 chapter a night, but when we started reading The Lightning Theif, often we read 3 per night because he was BEGGING to see/hear more.We were SO EAGER to get our hands on the second one, and I was SO BUMMED that I could find it- as it turns out they didn't illustrate any further, the closes I can get are the graphic novels, AKA the comic book versions and it is just NOT the same thing. 😭PLEASE DO THE NEXT BOOK EXPEDITIOUSLY!

I love this book and love the full page illustrations as I read it to my elementary aged son. It's great to get to pass down a favorite series and the books very good condition. 👍

This book was exactly what I hoped for. We bought this for our nephew for Christmas. He’s a big Harry Potter fan, but he’s too young to get past book three. We bought this hoping to get him interested in the series and give him something new to follow. Not only was the story a hit (I knew it would be), but the illustrations are beautiful and exactly what I’d imagined from Rick Riordan’s scene descriptions. I also love the map of Camp Half-blood. Truly hoping that there will be illustrated copies of the rest!Side note: My sister-in-law was excited to know about the teaching aids on the author website as well.

The pictures add so much to the story. I read it to a kid that claims to hate reading, and it even got him engaged!

I love mythology long before Riordan published his first Percy Jackson books. I love his books and creative ideas of setting mythologies into our modern era. When I saw that they were doing an illustrated version of "The Lightning Thief", I knew that I just had to get a copy. It makes re-reading all the more fun! The illustrations are beautiful, they are done by the same artist who illustrated Riordan's "Percy Jackson's Greek Gods" and "Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes". I hope that like the Harry Potter series, they will continue to do more illustrated version of the other books in the series.

I purchased the hard cover as a Christmas gift for my niece. She was/is a HUGE Harry Potter fan and after reading all of those, she hasn’t found any other books that capture her attention and so she hasn’t been reading much. I was determined to find another series that would get her reading again, so after asking around and hearing things like “Lighting Thief is my favorite book of all time!” I knew I found her next book/series. My sister text me yesterday and said about my niece “she is already on page 173 and hasn’t showered in 3 days!” She was saying “thanks a lot” Hahaa, but it was a huge compliment and my beautiful niece is reading again!

The book itself is beautiful. However mine arrive with multiple tears on the book jacket and had been taped. I wanted to exchange it but it only allowed returns...and I'd return and purchase again except the price is now $20 higher than when I ordered. It was a birthday gift for someone and I. Super disappointed in the appearance.

Wonderful illustrated version of this loved book. I thought this would be the perfect bridge into reading full chapter books and it really was. My 5 year old son loved listening to the story and the illustrations helped him stay connected to the book.