Romulus and Remus

by Anne Rockwell

After they wash up on a river bank, a she-wolf find the stranded twins, Romulus and Remus, and raises them herself with her own family, in a retelling of the ancient myth about the founders of the great city of Rome. Simultaneous.

Genres: Picture Books, Mythology, Fiction

40 pages, Board Book

First published December 1, 1981

Reviews

[Jeremy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Kate wanted to know if this was a true story. I told her that I didn't know.

Sophie read this (2024).

[Ro · Rating 2 out of 5]

Good, not very accurate at all, actually. But still a pretty good book.

[Claire Binkley · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the worldwide legend as told to me in my original Latin I course, in full color. I like it very much for giving me recollections of my middle school years, in 1999 when times were not as impecunious for me. (Latin is the backbone of my scholarly upbringing, as it exists or is pretending to exist in the background of all the other things I've been looking into today.)

I took my first Latin course from a teacher named Magister McCann, then the rest of my district's Classics department seemed to fragment, after I was fourteen, since my subsequent Latin courses in my opinion were not given as much support from the district as might have been useful, and I had to supplement them all heavily with the help of a University. Magistrae Boosz, Daywalt, and ... did I have a fourth one? I don't know and don't think so but they all taught their hearts out and I wish that there were better funding for the Classics and all other academic departments so that curious students could reach their potentials!
That is what this book made me reminiscent about, so that is why I typed that paragraph up above. It was evocative of a happier time in my life.

Anyway, in this book, I liked how one can observe the racial differences of the people on the Palatine Hill page, so I must take my metaphorical hat off to the author for portraying diversity as it existed in contemporary society. I think that dates to "BC" or "BCE" but I am not exactly sure about this and it isn't exactly dated here or I didn't notice if it had been anyway.

It's the founding of Rome. That's the date. Voila. Enjoy. It is a book for people who are struggling to read, but it is ALSO a book about a subject which is near and dear to me, Roman History.
(If you didn't know, I went to semesters and semesters of late-night Latin courses where maybe five students sat in the professor's office and we translated together. ...and ate my mother's Wilton cupcakes...)

[Annie · Rating 2 out of 5]

Pretty decent, but it kind of sugar-coats things, as there is no mention of Romulus killing Remus. If you’re teaching children about the first handful of chapters of Genesis, you’re already exposing them to those kinds of stories.

[Noelani · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good intro to Romulus and Remus. Hoping to come across this story again during our Greek and Roman studies this year that’s a bit more beefed up.

[lily · Rating 4 out of 5]

The wolf nursed the babies. And the brothers fought. People shouldn't fight.

[Mr. Pe Mr. Pe]

this is a great book and i recommend it to everyone

[Theresa · Rating 3 out of 5]

the story of the legend brought to young readers, some good information about the naming of Rome.

[Teri · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not at all accurate according to Story of the World. What about the part when Romulus kills Remus?