By Judy Sierra http://www.judysierra.net/
Author Henrik Drescher http://www.hdrescher.com/
Published Candlestick, Massachusetts, 2005
ISBN 978-0763617271
Mixed Media
Annotation
Brief introductions to monsters and folklore creatures accompanied by beautiful mixed media interpretations.
Personal Reaction
The Cannibal Baby sucks the skin and blood from kind strangers, The Abiku enters children and eat the food parents feed them, these are a few of the gruesome and scary creatures in cataloged in this book. Each creature has is cataloged with a rough messy illustration, the location of origin, a gruesome rating of 1 to 5, a brief detailed description and a helpful survival tip if said monster is encountered. This is a fun and disturbing book. I found, while reading it that I could have encountered a few of these monsters without knowing it. I think I might have been victim to the Scottish Spunkie who appears as a light shining at night confusing any sense of space and distance. This book will appeal to the younger tween age groups but will also be a good choice for low reading level older tweens and will create a definite cause some commotion when students start reading the disturbing descriptions out loud, which is great because social reading is really fun for students in this age group.
Folklore
Reluctant readers
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