This book presents information and lore about six different
legendary creatures: Frankenstein, vampires, bigfoot, zombies, werewolves, and sea
monsters. It provide background information, fun facts, and then dives right
into a ton of science surrounding almost every aspect of that creature. For
example in the Vampire chapter readers learn a great deal of information about
how blood works, real life animal vampires, different real genetic conditions
and diseases that can cause similar traits to vampires, and the evolution of
teeth. Cartoon like illustrations are on every page, including maps and science
drawings.
This book would be essential except the drawings are kind of
horrid and I really wanted to see some actual photographs (as would students).
But the text is TOP NOTCH. This is such
a fun and interesting read. Its that white unicorn book I am always looking to
add to the school library: lots of great learning hidden under a chocolaty
coating of uber appealing topics! I learned quite a few things from this book
and even stopped to look up things on the internet (which I wouldn’t of had to
do –had there been photographs!!). Just awesome! Probably best for 3rd grade and higher due to some scary content (like murder) and more involved science topics.
EL – ADVISABLE Reviewer:
Stephanie Elementary School Librarian & Author.
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