Monsterology (Ology Series)

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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. This one also had a lot more things that you can interact with and they were just delightful to manipulate. In 1985, her final year at Brighton, Helen was awarded the first Walker Prize for Children's Illustration.

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. Each year they have a rack of books based on the summer reading lists from local schools along with a binder with info from each school. 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.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. The conceit of the book is that it's a facsimile of one published in 1904 but - to my untrained eye at least - the illustrations of the fantastical beasts themselves do nothing to evoke the period. Whereas Pirateology looks wonderfully piratey whatever page you open it at, and Egyptology looks all things Egyptian and archaeological, Monsterology is neither one thing nor the other; and certainly not Edwardian.

It has plenty of beautiful watercolor and ink illustrations and specimens for the reader to touch are attached on nearly every page. 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.

If I have communicated anything in this book, I hope above all that it has been something of wonder not only of these fabulous beasts but of all the beasts, birds, and fishes that inhabit the Earth. It’s like a field guide to select creatures with notes, diagrams, illustrations and even “skin samples”. 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 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?

Despite these weighty literary associations, Monsterology wears its learning lightly, with information about the origins of each monster tucked offhandedly into Cool Fact footnotes.

Witty drawings inserted into the text reinforce the sense, however, that this is a book that aims to amuse rather than frighten. I would give "Monsterology The Complete Book of Monstrous Beasts" by Ernest Drake a 4-star review because, 1; I really like the illustrations and the information 2; I like how the author covers various creatures 3; I honestly forgot that these creatures are fictional while reading which I loved but 4; I really wish that is was longer and there were more information in this book. Alex Bell has published novels and short stories for both adults and young adults including Frozen Charlotte, a Zoella Book Club pick. This book purports that they are real and presents evidence, habitat information, attack styles, etc. The creatures and the information are a bit scattered throughout the book due to its scrapbook design, but that helps to make the book seem more "real".

Monsterology caters cheerfully to its readers’ fascination with smelly feet, bad breath, and other problematic aspects of the human body that can make us seem, or feel, monstrous. Medusa’s perpetual bad hair days, not to mention the hairiness of the Sasquatch and the female werewolf, are exploited with glee, and a recurring editorial comment is “Gross! In a case such as Mythology, the book is based around the published and private papers of a fictional lady traveller with notes from an equally fictitious man, but the book is a beautiful - one might even say visually stunning - introduction to the deities and myths of ancient Greece. 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.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. I will (most likely) not be rating all of the "ology" books I will be reading, because that would end up being a lot of ratings lol (especially since I also checked some out from the library). Ernest Drake was determined to bring the subject of dragons under the burgeoning umbrella of the nineteenth-century natural sciences. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. You even get to open Pandora's box, and there's a little pouch containing facsimiles of the oak leaves of the Oracle.