The Big Book of Monsters
$16.95
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Meet the monsters in this who’s who of the baddest of the bad!
Like those supernatural beasts everyone knows and fears—the bloodsucking vampire, Count Dracula, and that eight-foot-tall mash-up of corpses, Frankenstein’s Monster. Or that scariest of mummies, Cheops, who scientists revived after 4,700 years—big mistake! Or more horrifying yet, the Horla, an invisible, havoc-wreaking creature that herds humans like cattle and feeds of their souls.
Drawn from the pages of classic books and tales as old as time, this frightfully exciting collection features 25 of the creepiest creatures ever imagined, from witches and werewolves to dragons and ghosts. Every monster is brought to life in a full-size full-color portrait that captures the essence of the beast, and in lively text that recounts the monster’s spine-tingling story. With sidebars that explore the history and the genre of each sourcebook, The Big Book of Monsters is an exciting introduction to literature and language arts.
Hal Johnson is the author of Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods and Immortal Lycanthropes. He loves monsters and books.
"Johnson offers entertaining insights into each monster’s origin story, while suggesting that great literature creates characters that can truly take on lives of their own—and what’s scarier (and cooler) than that?" —Publishers Weekly
"Readers prepared for a big scare with a side order of literary history will love this collection…Johnson's casual descriptions of horrifying tales will delight middle grade readers while he successfully lures them to grander-scheme ideas. A must-have for middle school libraries and those whose readers seek out the creepy and the scary." —School Library Journal, starred review
"Perfect for Halloween and beyond, this is a ready-made syllabus for an engaging literature course that will have readers shrieking—with delight!" —Booklist, starred review
"[This book] will leave you jumping at the sound of a cricket or the tapping of a tree branch." —TIME for Kids
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| Subjects | Headless Horseman, book of the dead, Jane Webb, the mummy, fans of, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne, Oscar Wilde, Volsung Saga, she made a monster, Mary Shelley, Lafcadio Hearn, Golem, Gustav Meyrink, apep, Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving, Ovid, Metamorphoses, Medusa, Polyphemus, Folk-Tales of Bengal, Lal Behari Day, Macbeth, Were-Wolf, Clemence Housman, Ferdowsi, Shahnameh, Monsters, fun, Ghosts, gothic, horror, dracula, frankenstein, educational, reading, classics, fairy tales, middle school, middle grade, homer, illustrated, stories, scary, goblin, Shakespeare, introduction, bram stoker, grade school, odyssey, JNF026030, dorian gray, JNF034000, JNF048000, Nathaniel Hawthorne |
