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Monsters: A Strange Science Book (Strange Science) by Sylvia Funston; illustrations by Joe Weissmann is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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<p>Do you like your monsters hairy, slimy, fire-breathing, blood-sucking, gigantic or tiny?</p> <p>Monsters come in all shapes and sizes. They come from all over the world and have been around since the beginning of storytelling. What makes a monster? Do they really exist? In <b>Monsters</b>, the second book in the <i>Strange Science</i> series, author Sylvia Funston explores the myths, legends and truths behind the startlingly strange stories of real and imagined monsters.</p> <p>Did You Know:<br> </p> <ul> <li>The ancient Chinese told stories of Gong-Gong, a great-horned monster that ripped holes in the sky, causing floods and great changes in the weather?</li> <li>Iroquois legends tell of evil stone giants, known as Chenoo, whose broken stone bodies can still be seen piled up at the base of a cliff?</li> <li>In old Scandinavian tales, trolls are monstrous beings who haunt the woods at night? They were doomed to live by moonlight like vampires, turning to stone if exposed to sunlight.<br> </li> </ul> <p><b>Monsters</b> looks at legendary monsters, such as dragons and griffins, hairy monsters, like Sasquatch, and sea monsters like the giant kraken, the mightiest sea monster of all

Author

Sylvia Funston; illustrations by Joe Weissmann

Publisher

Owl Books ; Distributed in the U.S. by Firefly Books (U.S.)

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9781894379175