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Mythical Creatures
 
by
James Harpur

Mythical Creatures

4.14 of 5 stars 4.14  ·  rating details  ·  7 ratings  ·  1 review
Children love tales about dragons and monsters--and this large, richly illustrated book will enthrall them with its array of mythical creatures of all shapes and sizes. Here, for example, is a Cyclops, a hideous one-eyed giant from Homer’s epic poem, The Odyssey. Young readers can pull a tab on that picture and expose the contents of the Cyclops’s belly: He has eaten Odyss...more
Published (first published January 1st 2009)
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Daniel Bergman
Mythical Creatures by James Harpur was a fascinating book about fictional monsters. It includes over 25 biographies of monsters including: Cyclops, Bigfoot, Reptoid alien, and much more! The book talks about the parts of the monster's bodies and the stories about them.
Cassidy
May 06, 2013 Cassidy marked it as to-read
Shelves: mythical-beings
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Shelves: dragon-fun
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Apr 02, 2009 Rachel marked it as to-read
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James Harpur has had four poetry collections published by Anvil Press: A Vision of Comets (1993), The Monk’s Dream (1996), Oracle Bones (2001) and The Dark Age (2007). Anvil have also published his Fortune’s Prisoner, a translation of the poems of Boethius. In addition, he has published a sequence of religious poems called The Gospel of Joseph of Arimathea (Wild Goose, 2008). His prose publication...more
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