Greek myths are exciting and kids love reading about them.  Odysseus is always a popular hero and the story about the cyclops is one of the best.  Odysseus and his men came to an island and found a cave full of food.  Waiting, they found that it was a cyclops who lived there and he was none too friendly.  For breakfast and dinner he would eat two of Odysseus’s men.  Finally they came upon a plan.  They would give the cyclops some wine and when he fell asleep they would blind his one eye.  After doing so, they disguised themselves as part of the sheep and slipped out of the cave.  I especially enjoyed the cleverness of Odysseus when he said his name was Nobody, so when enraged, the cyclops yelled ‘Nobody did this to me!’  Fun reading for kids.