Cricket Magazine Fiction and Non-Fiction Stories for Children and Young Teens

Clytie the Sunflower A GREEK MYTH

Long ago, in a land far away, a river nymph named Clytie swam the hours away among her sisters. So busy were the nymphs practicing their water ballet and braiding lilies into their hair that they barely noticed the world beyond the water.

Their father, King Oceanus, forbade his girls to leave the river except to take a brief rest in the shade at midday. Like her sisters, Clytie had no desire to break this rule, until one day when she

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