Remember the adventures of Gilgamesh, the Akkadian demigod?PaleoJudaica noted her first Gilgamesh book (in Hebrew) here.
Shirley Graetz, the Jerusalem-based writer and creator of the elementary school-age hero, is back with the second book in the series, “Gilgamesh and the Underworld,” and she’s crowdsourcing some financial help, having self-published the successful chapter book the first time.
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Saturday, February 04, 2017
Crowdsourcing Gilgamesh
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: Readers get headstart on book about Gilgamesh. Jerusalem author Shirley Graetz turns to crowdsourcing to fund young reader series (Jessica Steinberg, Times of Israel).