Monsterology (Ology Series)

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His record includes beasts of the earth, water, air, and semi-human creatures found around the world, drawing from the mythology of myriad cultures and presenting his findings as fact. Helen Ward trained as an illustrator at Brighton School of Art, under the direction of well-known children's illustrators such as Raymond Briggs, Justin Todd, Chris McEwan and John Vernon Lord. The only downside is that it has very few examples from the Americas or Africa, relying instead on European and Asian creatures. The more beady-eyed readers among you will have noticed that there are a couple of more conventional ologies in the mix: Egyptology and Mythology, and herein lies the rub.

My only regret is that because of how many species there are and how short the book is, it couldn't go into greater detail about the races. There is a darkness in the shading of the portraits and expression of the characters that indicates “something of the night” about them. Monsterology The Complete Book of Monstrous Beasts" by Ernest Drake is, a fictional children's book about about fictional monsters including unicorns, griffins, the kraken, etc.Monsterology, the study of fabulous beasts other than Dragons, was originally considered a branch of Wizardology rather than a field in its own right. It's an exciting and innovative way of getting someone interested in the subject and I, for one, would have been totally absorbed by it as a boy.

Ernest Drake set forth on his yacht, The Hydra for a year-long voyage around the world to start a new science, he deemed it "Monsterology". This book purports that they are real and presents evidence, habitat information, attack styles, etc. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

Best of all, Monsterology closes with a message on proper conduct for aspiring monsterologists and the importance of conservation. You have to touch them and play with them even if you can't read the text the book seems appealing to kids of all ages. The purple, man-eating, burrowing giant worm known as the Mongolian death worm," for example, is fake according to Dr. Monsters from folklore and literature are given star treatment by Governor General’s Award winner Arthur Slade.

This book is as detailed as any of the previous installments and is a must for any fan of the series. He had absolutely no doubt that dragons exist, and his notes suggest that he had no little experience of them.To a younger generation, however, I imagine that "ology" will instantly bring to mind Dugald Steer's series of extraordinary books. For those of us over a certain age, the word "ology" will forever conjure up the image of Maureen Lipman, playing the character of Beattie in the telephone ad, saying: "You got an ology? Dugald has now given up his editorial job to concentrate on writing full-time, especially more books with "ology" in the title. Several jobs later Dugald began working at Templar Publishing, where he worked his way up to Senior Editor, writing and editing many books in house. Dugald Steer was born in 1965 and grew up in Surrey, where his love of books and reading led him to study English Literature and Philosophy at Bristol.