Fantastic animals from all over the world

Kraken, Kitsune, Amphisben - who are they? These are the names of amazing and incredible animals, the existence of which people from different countries and eras once believed. Poets wrote about these and other fantastic creatures - unicorns, dragons, chimeras, and artists painted them according to the descriptions of eyewitnesses. Experts did not always converge among themselves in the description of the species of these animals, their habits and habitats, but they were sure that such creatures were actually.
It is amazing that not only ordinary people, but also prominent scientists believed in monsters many centuries ago! And only with the development of science of error they dispersed. But what only the fantasy of man and his faith in miracles are capable of!
Many monsters can be familiar to the reader in myths, legends and fairy tales: Hercules fought with the Lerney Hydra and other monsters, "Tales of 1000 and 1 Nights" describe a huge bird of the ruch, and how many stories about dragons and unicorns! But besides meeting with old acquaintances, in this book you will find a lot and amazing you, because it contains mythological creatures from all over the world, and also the news of science about them.
Do you want to know what the chupacabra looks like, what the Lokhnesian monster eats, where the Phoenix lives, and what do modern scientists think about the existence of extraordinary creatures? For each of the monsters, the author of the book Ekaterina Stepanenko collected a real dossier, and the artist Paul Plainskaya painted their portraits, illustrated habits and habitats. In addition, interesting games and tasks await readers on the pages of readers, and the world map at the beginning of the book will show where fantastic creatures live.
This book resembles medieval bestiarias that alternated fantastic information about really existing animals with no less fantastic descriptions of invented creatures and their habits. The knowledge of the world has since stepped far ahead, and yet the number of wonderful creatures has only been added: Nessi, Yeti, Tripodero and others entered the company of Griffin, Phoenix and Basilisk.
This publication is the second joint work of the author and the artist, the previous one - "Book of Cold, Ice and Snow" - talked about a variety of natural phenomena, stories, legends and customs related to winter and frost.
For primary and secondary school age