Mother of Rome Nikki Grimes including Olympians and World Champions

including Olympians and World Champions

from little pigs and their piglets to soft wooly sheep

Moskowitz had a near-death experience

and is awakened by blood-curdling screams in the night

Mother of Rome Nikki Grimes including Olympians and World ChampionsA powerful and fierce reimagining of the earliest Roman legend: the twins, Romulus and Remus, mythical founders of history's greatest empire, and the woman whose sacrifice made it all possible. The names Romulus and Remus may be immortalized in map and stone and chronicle, but their mother exists only as a preface to her sons' journey, the princess turned oath breaking priestess, condemned to death alongside her children. But she did not die; she