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  About the Authors and Illustrator

  Joan Holub is the New York Times bestselling author of over one hundred fifty books for young readers, including Little Red Writing, Zero the Hero, Mighty Dads, This Little Trailblazer: A Girl Power Primer, and What Is the Statue of Liberty? She also coauthors the Goddess Girls series with the amazing Suzanne. Visit her at joanholub.com.

  Suzanne Williams is a former elementary school librarian and the author of over seventy books for children, including the award-winning picture books Library Lil (illustrated by Steven Kellogg) and My Dog Never Says Please (illustrated by Tedd Arnold) and several chapter book and middle-grade series. She coauthors the Goddess Girls series with the fantastic Joan. Visit her at suzanne-williams.com.

  Yuyi Chen began her career as a 3-D artist making video games, then realized her true passion is illustrating for children. She also likes to spend her time reading, listening to her children laugh, and pretending she is a competitive cake decorator. She lives in Washington with her husband and two sons.

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  This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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  First Aladdin QUIX paperback edition January 2020

  Text copyright © 2020 by Joan Holub and Suzanne Williams

  Illustrations copyright © 2020 by Yuyi Chen

  Also available in an Aladdin QUIX hardcover edition.

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  Book designed by Tiara Iandiorio

  Cover designed by Karin Paprocki

  Cover illustration copyright © 2020 by Yuyi Chen

  The illustrations for this book were rendered digitally.

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Names: Holub, Joan, author. | Williams, Suzanne, 1953- author. | Chen, Yuyi (Artist), illustrator. | Title: Aphrodite & the gold apple / by Joan Holub and Suzanne Williams; illustrated by Yuyi Chen. | Other titles: Aphrodite and the gold apple

  Description: First aladdin paperback edition. | New York : Aladdin, 2020. | “Aladdin QUIX.” | Summary: Eight-year-olds Aphrodite, Athena, and Persephone continue their journey on the Hello Brick Road to meet Zeus and meet a new, timid friend, Artemis.

  Identifiers: LCCN 2019020642 (print) | LCCN 2019022032 (eBook) |

  ISBN 9781534431133 (eBook) | ISBN 9781534431119 (pbk) | ISBN 9781534431126 (hc)

  Subjects: LCSH: Aphrodite (Greek deity)—Juvenile fiction. | CYAC: Aphrodite (Greek deity)—Fiction. | Goddesses, Greek—Fiction. | Mythology, Greek—Fiction. | Fantasy. Classification: LCC PZ7.H7427 (eBook) | LCC PZ7.H7427 Apf 2020 (print) | DDC [E]—dc23

  LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019020642