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Children's Book of Mythical Beasts and Magical Monsters by DK Publishing (Repost)

Posted By: thingska
Children's Book of Mythical Beasts and Magical Monsters by DK Publishing (Repost)

Children's Book of Mythical Beasts and Magical Monsters by DK Publishing
English | Aug 29, 2011 | ISBN: 0756686059 | 144 Pages | PDF | 53,4 MB

Discover the adventures of heroes and monsters that exist in the world of mythical and magical creatures!
Stories have been told on every continent since the dawn of time, and some have lasted for thousands of years, becoming what we know today as myths. These fantastical tales educate and fascinate by creating amazing worlds and inhabiting them with wondrous feats of heroics and dastardly deeds of evil. Children's Book of Mythical Beasts & Magical Monsters gives children the opportunity to discover these stories, and encourages them to understand storytelling from different cultures.

Review:
For a children's introduction, this is an impressively thorough book. Even adults with an already good grasp of the stories and traditions will appreciate this collection.
The book is generously laden with artwork of different genres, so it has a textured feel to it: reproductions of woodblocks, paintings, sculptures, and so on. Art examples range from prehistory to the present, giving vivid representations of the myths at hand.
Some singular characters–such as the Monkey King and Baba Yaga, among others–are given their own two-page spread, while others are grouped today in attractive flow charts or pie charts. The result is a visceral read of each character, even when s/he is part of a larger grouping. As someone who slugged through translations of Greek classics as well as Bullfinch's and Edith Hamilton's mythology for fun and assignments, I only wish I had this DK book at my side at the time. I bought this for my son but am already borrowing it often.