The Book of Mythical Beasts and Magical Creatures: Meet your favourite monsters, fairies, heroes, and tricksters from all around the world

Meet your favourite monsters, dragons, fairies, heroes, and tricksters from all around the world!

Enter the enchanting world of mythical creatures and explore the history behind them in this beautifully illustrated mythology book for kids aged 5-9. You’ll meet an incredible cast of mind-boggling fictional animals from all around the world.

With magic and mystery on every page, this book of mythology for kids offers:

Facts behind the mythsInsights into cultures from around the world and their creation storiesStunning full-colour illustrations by Pham Quang Phuc

Mythical Beasts and Magical Creatures features everything about supernatural animals great and small. Perfect for fans of Harry Potter, dragons, unicorns and Greek mythology books, this is the only kids’ guide to magical creatures that explores the history of myths and monsters in both an engaging and educational way.

Say hello to Bigfoot in the forests of North America, voyage to Japan to meet kitsune, supernatural nine-tailed foxes that can turn into humans, then jump onboard an ancient storm-battered ship to learn why mermaids were the last thing a sailor wanted to see! Learn about the societies that spawned these legendary creatures, from Ancient Greece to the indigenous tribes of Australia, and find out what the mythical creatures tell us about the people who created them.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ DK Children
Publication date ‏ : ‎ 1 Oct. 2020
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 160 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0241423953
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0241423950
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 890 g
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 5 – 8 years, from customers
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 22.2 x 1.8 x 26.2 cm
Part of series ‏ : ‎ Mysteries, Magic and Myth
Best Sellers Rank: 5,880 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) 8 in Mythology Encyclopaedias 37 in Animal Sciences References 112 in Dragons, Unicorns & Mythical Creatures Tales for Children
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