Haley suggested that he should turn that story into a book, and Riordan wrote the book over the next year despite being busy at that time.
This led Riordan to create the fictional character of Percy Jackson and create the story of how he travels across the United States to recover Zeus' lightning bolt. When Rick Riordan ran out of myths, his son suggested that he would make up new stories using existing mythological characters and new ones. His son, Haley, had been studying Greek mythology in second grade and requested that his father tell him bedtime stories based on Greek myths.
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Riordan at the Texas Book Festival in November 2007, doing publicity for Book 4ĭevelopment for both The Lightning Thief and the Percy Jackson series commenced when Rick Riordan began writing stories for his son Haley Riordan, who had at the time been diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia.
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Ī TV series adaptation is in development for Disney+, with the release date being unannounced as of November 2021. An adaptation of the second book, titled Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, was released in 2013. The first book was adapted into a film titled Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief in 2010, which was commercially successful, but due to major deviations from the books received mixed reviews from fans around the world. Īs of October 28, 2011, the books have been on The New York Times Best Seller list for children's book series for 245 weeks. More than 69 million copies of the books have been sold in more than 35 countries. Five supplementary books, along with graphic novel versions of each book in the first series have also been released. Percy Jackson & the Olympians, often shortened to Percy Jackson, PJO, or PJatO is a pentalogy of fantasy adventure novels written by American author Rick Riordan, and the first book series in the Camp Half-Blood Chronicles. Print ( hardcover and paperback), audiobook, e-book
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