The Wanderings of Odysseus is Rosemary Sutcliff’s retelling of Homer’s Odyssey. Follow Odysseus through his many dangerous and deadly adventures as he overcomes with the cyclops, Scylla and Charybdis, and his own shortcomings to make his way home to Ithaca after the Trojan War. The Wanderings of Odysseus is available as a text-only chapter book or as a large, illustrated picture book (out of print but easy to find).