
The Paradise of Children - recounts the story of Pandora opening the box filled with all of mankind's Troubles. The Golden Touch - recounts the story of King Midas and his "Golden Touch". The Gorgon's Head - recounts the story of Perseus killing Medusa at the request of the king of the island, Polydectes.

All the tales are modified from the original myths.Ī Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys covers the myths of The stories in A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys are all stories within a story, the frame story being that a Williams College student, Eustace Bright, is telling these tales to a group of children at Tanglewood, an area in Lenox, Massachusetts, where Hawthorne lived for a time.
