This is a beautiful book, the illustrations are absolutely stunning. There's a decent selection of myths and legends with some from every continent. 

The stories were interesting and many of them were new to me. I do suspect that many of them have been sterilised a bit to make them less dark or characters more likeable, certainly that was true of one of the stories I recognised. It is written for children so it's understandable, though I do believe kids can handle more than they're sometimes given credit for. 

The writing was competent rather than great, but I enjoyed reading it, and the illustrations alone are easily worth the price of the book.