A pack of fifty cards containing simple spooky doodle activities to keep little children busy on dark & stormy nights. The cards are wipe clean & the pack

Includes:: a special pen with which to doodle on the cards, making the pack entirely self contained, easily portable & a great gift. The cards are robust & durable, ensuring repeated use.

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Take a wicked walk on the wild side of imagination! Filled with prompts & illustrations to help inspire their inner Dr. Frankenstein, Monster Doodles for Kids lures boys & girls into this pocket-sized laboratory where they can create fiendish, snaggle-toothed monsters & eye-popping villains to their heart’s desire. Chris Sabatino is a monster lover who doodles all day long. Chris’s crazy creatures have been featured in books, magazines, comics, & greeting cards. ...

For Zeb Hogan, bigger is better
- especially when it comes to fish. From sawfish to a giant catfish to giant stingrays, Zeb`s
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Monster Hands is a set of 8 temporary tattoos that will amuse, entertain, & inspire as they turn your hand into a talking monster. Simple yet hugely entertaining, these are for the whole family. All you need is your hand & some water. Each design measures Approx. 8x 7cm. Ideal to mix & match with the Finger Temporary Tattoos to bring to life the wildest stories ...

Slaying...and playing. All part of a day`s work for Max Helsing. Descended from a long line of monster hunters, Max Helsing does a pretty good job of being an eighth grader by day & keeping his town safe from demons, ghouls & the occasional mummy by night. That is, until he turns thriteen & discovers he`s been cursed by an ancient vampire who wants him dead
- at any cost. To save the world
- & his life
- Max must rely on his wise-cracking best friend, cantankerous monster, computer genius neighbour, & br&-new puppy. He`ll need all their help & more to break the Thirteenth Curse!


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For millennia, nature's biggest & fiercest predators have tormented mankind. The knowledge & fear of the existence of these ferocious man-eaters is forever in the back of our minds, looming in our worst nightmares. Millions of humans have suffered attacks by predators on land & at sea. Yet animals have always shared the landscape with humans. Since the dawn of time our ecosystems have been linked & humans have co-existed with flesh-eating beasts as members of the same food chain. Now, of course, as humans spread & despoil the planet, these fearsome predators may only survive on the other side of glass barriers & chain-link fences. Their gradual disappearance is changing the nature of our own existence. We no longer occupy an intermediate position on the food chain; instead we survey it invulnerably from above
- so far above that we are in danger of forgetting that we even belong to an ecosystem. David Quammen's enthralling new book covers the four corners of the globe as he explores the fate of lions in India's Gir forest, saltwater crocodiles in Northern Australia, brown bears in the mountains of Romania, & Siberian tigers. Tracking these great & terrible beasts through the toughest terrain in the world, Quammen is equally intrigued by the traditional relationship between the great predators & the people who live among them, & weaves into his story the fears & myths that have haunted humankind for 3000 years.
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The hard evidence amounted to a grainy black & white photograph published in the Illustrated London News in 1918. Sat on a packing-case, propped up with a large stick, was what purported to be the body of a giant monkey, known variously as ' Loy's ape', ' King Monkey' & the ' Mono Rey'. It was supposed to inhabit the dense jungles of northern Bolivia. around the Madidi river, & the last westerner to attempt a sighting, the redoubtable Englishman Colonel Percy Fawcett, had disappeared without trace back in the 1920s. For the young travel writer Simon Chapman, however, the jungle is the only place to be, & the denser & more remote the better. Which is why, accompanied by an Englishman whose hobby is fighting mock mediaeval battles & an Australian who used the pages of his South American Handbook for cigarette papers in order to sample remote countries 'by exhalation', he took an all
- too-collapsible canoe amid Bolivia's swamps & rainforest to try & see for himself the mythical monster of the Madidi. In the classic English tradition that sets about turning a mad idea into an utter absurdity, it was an adventure from start to finish. Charlie, the Australian, proved much more successful at catching improbably large fish than at simply steering the canoe in a straight line. Their guides were soon adept at requiring another ration of the team's precious tinned chocolate pudding before any meaningful progress; & a daily procession of bemused tapirs, anteaters & jungle-dwelling wild turkeys only reminded them how very far they were from civilisation. Most worryingly of all, each rare encounter with a human being brought news that maybe the Mono Rey was a kind of bear, not a monkey
- or even that there was no monster after all... Compelling, comic & touching, with a superb awareness of the natural world, The Monster of the Madidi introduces a new travel writing talent that every fan of Redmond O' Hanlon & Eric Newby will relish.

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The monster Grendel has awoken & the townspeople are terrified. Even the King has abandoned his great Hall. Hero after hero comes to slay the monster, but no one can outwit Grendel. Only Beowulf has a chance. But when Beowulf finally triumphs, an even greater horror awakens. Grendel`s mother, the Hag, wants revenge on the slayer of her son. High quality cream paper & a special easy to read font ensure a smooth read for all. ...

This book explores monsters through the ages & throughout the world. With a brilliant set of bizarre & fantastical illustrations, Monsters provides a dark yet engrossing visual history of fearsome beasts from every age & culture. Christopher Dell investigates what the existence of monsters even if only in our heads says about humankind, & explores such questions as how monsters have survived the millennia; why they are universal; &, why we find the same one-eyed giants in Japan & in ancient Greece, or the same dragons in Europe & China. ...

The margins of medieval manuscripts teem with sirens, satyrs, griffins, unicorns, dragons & other bizarre creatures. Commonplace animals are twisted together in impossible combinations, & human bodies are merged with animal forms in ways that are often both comic & ghastly. Images of these monstrosities pervade art & culture in the Middle Ages, & for medieval pages they must have been a tantalizing suggestion of unknown worlds & unthinkable dangers. But what were they doing there? Were they meaningless distractions, or did these strange beasts have other symbolic meanings? Alixe Bovey's readable text explains the meaning of these monsters & their place in medieval art. ...