The God Beneath the Sea [SEP] publisher
The God Beneath the Sea
The God Beneath the Sea is a children's novel based on Greek mythology, written by Leon Garfield and Edward Blishen, illustrated by Charles Keeping, and published by Longman in 1970. It was awarded the annual Carnegie Medal (Garfield & Blishen) and commended for the companion Greenaway Medal (Keeping) by the British Library Association. Pantheon Books published a U.S. edition with illustrations by Zevi Blum in 1971.
The novel begins with newborn Hephaestus (the titular god beneath the sea) cast from
the stories to the primitive roots of myth, rather than to the civilized commentators, taking the stories from scholarship and handing them back to imagination." Writing on the occasion of Keeping's nomination for the 1974 Hans Christian Andersen Award, a reviewer in "The Times" singled out the illustrations for "The God Beneath the Sea" and its sequel "The Golden Shadow" as "probably the most striking evidence of Keeping's forceful presence".
The U.S. publisher Random House replaced Keeping's work with illustrations by Zevi