Centaur School #5 [Paperback]

Is Demon up to the challenge?

Beasts of Olympus is a series of illustrated chapter books set in a magical Ancient Greece where strange things still walk the Earth. In the fifth book, Chiron the centaur teaches Demon to make his own cures for sick mythical beasts. But Demon must put his new skills to the test right away in order to save an ailing phoenix before it's too late!Lucy Coats (www.lucycoats.com) studied English and Ancient History at Edinburgh University, then worked in children’s publishing and now writes full-time. Her twelve-book series, Greek Beasts and Heroes, was published by Orion in the UK. You can follow her on Twitter @lucycoats.CHAPTER ONE: Itchy Griffin

Since the Colchian Dragon had nearly exploded Olympus, Demon had learned oodles and squoodles of useful stuff about mixing medicines and proper animal doctoring from his centaur teacher, Chiron. There was one thing, however, he just couldn’t seem to get right.
 
“AARRRGGHH!” The official stable boy to the gods and apprentice healer stood up, threw down the slate he was writing on, and stamped on it. Twice. He looked at the book that lay open beside him on the bale of silver hay. The letters next to the beautiful pictures on the pages were all wriggly and squirrelly and squiggly. His own attempts to copy them were even worse. “I’m NEVER going to learn to write properly,” he said, sitting down again with a despairing thump.
 
A large beak reached down from the roof of the Stables of the Gods and nipped his ear.
 
“What’s up, Pan’s scrawny kid?” asked the griffin, flapping down through the light of another bright Olympus day. “Why the long face? You look as grumpy as the giant scorpion.” It sat its lion’s rump down and began to scratch under its wing feathers with a sharp-clawed back paw.
 
“Chiron says I have to make notes on all my new patients lÓ#