This is a picture book (mostly one big picture per page) with selected episodes from Hercules' labours. There is no background for Hercules' life; the story simply starts with the labours.

The pictures are very colourful, and there are also a few black and white illustrations. The main story told is the search for the golden apples. However, Hercules needs to capture a strange entity first, referred to as "the Old One". Then Hercules encounters Atlas. Atlas is drawn as a green, jewelled giant who resembles a genie.

This is an educational picture book. It gives limited information regarding Hercules and his origin but starts by narrating that Hercules' "had big muscles- the biggest in the world" (p. 3). This clarifies that the presentation, as indicated by the title, is centred on Hercules' physical strength. From the introduction, we understand that the book is aimed at a young audience. With the younger audience in mind, unsurprisingly, there is no mention of the murders committed by the hero. It continues by stating that "Hercules went to work for a bad king" (p. 4). This is how the author avoids introducing the labours as Hercules' punishment for a crime, and they are therefore presented as a kind of "job" Hercules had to do for his boss. Furthermore, this presentation makes Hercules a hero who fights monsters for no apparent reason other than the whim of his boss. There is no heroic journey here.

In the illustrations, Hercules is a very muscular blond man with long hair. Of course, this follows a long tradition of depicting Hercules as a hulk, although not all works portray him as blond. There is no specific reason to describe Atlas as a genie unless it was an artistic decision. It certainly does not relate to Atlas' role as the holder of heaven. Perhaps the illustration was meant to create an exotic and otherworldly experience and atmosphere for the book. Hercules is not fighting in the real world or time but in a mythic and mystic universe.

The moral at the end of the book, after Hercules tricked Atlas, is not that Hercules was strong enough to lift the sky, but that Hercules was smart "Oh no. Instead they said, 'And that, my children, is how Hercules proved he was smart'" (p. 32). The emphasis is that Hercules had brains rather than brawn. The booklet gives a brief taste of Hercules and is perhaps meant to entice children curious to read more about his adventures and probably push more purchases of the books from the series.