The Book of Beasts is an exciting short story from The Book of Dragons by E. Nesbit that is revised and edited for The Gunston Trust for Nonviolence in Children's Literature.
Matt and Emily Calder’s travels through time come to a thrilling conclusion in the third book of the Hollow Earth trilogy as the siblings struggle to close Hollow Earth—and keep the monsters inside.
White's witty, erudite commentary on scientific and historical aspects enhances this survey of proto-zoology on which science is based and pre-scientific perceptions of the earth's creatures. 128 black-and-white illustrations.
Filled with hundreds of mythical monsters from around the world, The Book of Beasts will take readers on an epic colouring quest through ancient lands and lore.
White's The Bestiary: A Book of Beasts was the first and, for a time, the only English translation of a medieval bestiary.
The story of Seamus (James) Wilberforce Young, is beautifully told, and speaks to the isolation and loss of so many children who find themselves in broken families and must struggle to find their way back to wholeness and hope.
Although the book has often been classified as a novel, indeed Jefferies may himself have regarded it as such, it does not have the traditional structure of one, lacking a real plot or a strong feeling of continuity through the chapters.
A compendium of monsters, critters, and mythical creatures to color. Filled with mythical monsters from around the world, The Book of Beasts will take young readers on an epic coloring quest through ancient lands and lore.
"Those with the courage to open this book will find trapped within its pages the foulest, fiercest, and most fantastical creatures to have ever sent shivers up a mortal's spine"--Page 4 of cover.