Monsterology (Ology Series)

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You even get to open Pandora's box, and there's a little pouch containing facsimiles of the oak leaves of the Oracle. This was the book that first brought creatures of mythology into my life, and the descriptions and stories about said creatures were extraordinarily useful for bringing the illustrations to life. The fictitious "Dr Ernest Drake" is back from Dragonology to guide us through this extraordinary world.

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. The purple, man-eating, burrowing giant worm known as the Mongolian death worm," for example, is fake according to Dr.

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. Review by my granson as the book is his:Following on from the Dragonology set of merchandise this is in the same ilk.

This is a beautifully crafted book and one of a series I'm proud to collect for my daughter, who is 5 now, though I know she will enjoy this for years to come. Alex Bell has published novels and short stories for both adults and young adults including Frozen Charlotte, a Zoella Book Club pick. Dugald has now given up his editorial job to concentrate on writing full-time, especially more books with "ology" in the title. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. The book was part textbook style, talking about the creatures lives, diets, health and more, and part travel guide where the monsterologist discusses his travels looking for these monsters.

The result is a book designed to tickle the imagination, complete with fold-out maps, envelopes, and other tangible items - such as unicorn hair, sea serpent skin, and spell-casting paper - lending an authentic feel to a book of imagined creatures.

There is a darkness in the shading of the portraits and expression of the characters that indicates “something of the night” about them. This book is not to be and should not be mixed up with the actual monster book from Harry Potter, that may eat little fingers; this book can answer, do monstrous krakens really lurk below the deep ocean waves?You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Monsterology, the study of fabulous beasts other than Dragons, was originally considered a branch of Wizardology rather than a field in its own right. A companion to Dragonology, Monsterology is a study of the many supposedly mythical beasts that inhabit our world. Leonard's Forest, Sussex, England, in the late nineteenth century and to have issued a very limited run - some 100 copies - of DRAGONOLOGY in 1895. There is a lot of "samples" from the creatures that the author finds especially in the back, there is a section dedicated to the samples found.

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.

Best of all, Monsterology closes with a message on proper conduct for aspiring monsterologists and the importance of conservation. Ernest Drake was determined to bring the subject of dragons under the burgeoning umbrella of the nineteenth-century natural sciences. Wayne Andersen has been illustrating in his colour pencil style for over 40 years and is renowned for his playful imagination and fantastic imagery. A fabulous tome for those who love legendary beasts that still wander among us, this lush and luxurious look at an astounding array of creatures offers everything a true believer would want to know. To a younger generation, however, I imagine that "ology" will instantly bring to mind Dugald Steer's series of extraordinary books.