To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. 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! But how does the series tackle something less clearly defined, such as the fantastical beasts in Monsterology? 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.

Overall, Monsterology is fantastic and a must have for someone fascinated by mythology, monsters, and fantasy. In 1985, her final year at Brighton, Helen was awarded the first Walker Prize for Children's Illustration. A companion to DRAGONOLOGY, MONSTEROLOGY is a study of the many supposedly mythical beasts that inhabit our world.

It's a guidebook by a fictional natural historian who traveled around the world to observe monsters in their native habitats. 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. 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.

They flash through the air and slither through the seas, crawl through the earth and lurk in the woods. 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. 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? There is a darkness in the shading of the portraits and expression of the characters that indicates “something of the night” about them.While the 15 monsters profiled come from the Western tradition, their homes range from ancient Egypt to Russia to Haiti, with an occasional nod to Asian and North American native traditions as well. Information aside, the real "treasures", however, lie inside a lattice-fronted, die-cut cabinet of curiosities set deep inside the back cover. 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.