Henceforth she would have to spend three months a year with him, and nine with her mother. All is not so simple however, as the captive Persphone, tempted by their beauty and fragrance, had eaten three pomegranate seeds, tying her to Hades' kingdom. When matters reach a crisis point, Zeus intervenes and arranges to have Persephone returned to her mother. Her mother Demeter, in the meantime, searches the world over for her, so consumed by grief that she eventually causes all growing things to wither and die. Kidnapped by her uncle Hades and taken to his palace in the underworld, Persephone resists all of her captor's efforts to reconcile her to her new life, and refuses all food. Author Laura Geringer and illustrator Leonid Gore join forces in this picture-book presentation of the Greek myth of Persephone.
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