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." ...

This is a marvelous medley of old & new monsters to colour from micro beasties no bigger than a bee to mighty monsters the size of skyscrapers. There are munchy monsters midnight feasting & bogeymonsters under the bed; attic monsters alien monsters & murky monsters from a slimy swamp. Meet terrible trolls & howling werewolves as well as Frankensteins monster Nessie & other monster celebrities of myth & legend. Doodling activities include designing monsters naming monsters drawing monsters step-by-step writing a mini-monster tale escaping the Minotaurs maze & discovering lots of interesting monster stuff along the way. ...

Be afraid be very afraid...a century of cinema nightmare with John Landis. From B-movie bogeymen & outer space-oddities to big-budget terrors Monsters in the Movies" by horror film maestro John Landis celebrates the greatest monsters ever to creep fly slither stalk or rampage across the Silver Screen. Feast your eyes on a petrifying parade of voracious vampires flesh-eating zombies & slavering werewolves as Landis explores the historical origins of archetypal monsters. Filled with the authors own fascinating & entertaining insights into the world of movie-making along with contributions from some of the worlds leading directors actors & special-effects wizards this book is stunningly illustrated with over 1 000 movie stills & posters from the unrivalled archives of the Kobal Collection to keep you entertained right until the curtain comes down. Get ready to sit on the edge of your seat
- " Monsters in the Movies" is coming soon..."
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This is the electrifying finale to the multiple award-winning trilogy Chaos Walking". ' War' says the Mayor. ' At last'. Three armies march on New Prentisstown each one intent on destroying the others. Todd & Viola are caught in the middle with no chance of escape. As the battles commence how can they hope to stop the fighting? How can there ever be peace when they're so hopelessly outnumbered? & if war makes monsters of men what terrible choices await? But then a third voice breaks into the battle one bent on revenge... The electrifying finale to the award-winning " Chaos Walking" trilogy " Monsters of Men" is a heart-stopping novel about power survival & the devastating realities of war." ...

Oscar is not looking forward to Grandad coming to look after him at the weekend
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When Mauds perfect twin sister Milly plans a sleepover Mum forces Maud to have her friends over too. What can possibly go wrong? Nothing much.. .just that Mauds mum might find out about Rotwood High being a school for real monsters! As if thats not enough to worry about Maud is tricked into looking after violet the school hamster by her arch enemy bitchy-witch Poisonous Penelope. But violet is no ordinary hamster! Shes a pedigree vampster & an expert cage-breaker. With a vampster on the loose sleep is the very last thing that happens! Another terrifyingly terrific tale in the Monstrous Maud series written by Abi Saddlewick. ...

Polly Perks had to become a boy in a hurry. Cutting off her hair & wearing trousers was easy. Learning to fart & belch in public & walk like an ape took more time.. . And now shes enlisted in the army & searching for her lost brother. But theres a war on. Theres always a war on. & Polly & her fellow recruits are suddenly in the thick of it without any training & the enemy is hunting them. All they have on their side is the most artful sergeant in the army & a vampire with a lust for coffee. Well.. .they have the Secret. & as they take the war to the heart of the enemy they have to use all the resources of.. .the Monstrous Regiment. -It began as a sudden strange fancy.. . Polly Perks had to become a boy in a hurry. Cutting off her hair & wearing trousers was easy. Learning to fart & belch in public & walk like an ape took more time.. . And now shes enlisted in the army & searching for her lost brother. But theres a war on. Theres always a war on. & Polly & her fellow recruits are suddenly in the thick of it without any training & the enemy is hunting them. All they have on their side is the most artful sergeant in the army & a vampire with a lust for coffee. Well.. .they have the Secret. & as they take the war to the heart of the enemy they have to use all the resources of.. .the Monstrous Regiment. ...

It began as a sudden strange fancy.. . Polly Perks had to become a boy in a hurry. Cutting off her hair & wearing trousers was easy. Learning to fart & belch in public & walk like an ape took more time.. . And now shes enlisted in the army & searching for her lost brother. But theres a war on. Theres always a war on. & Polly & her fellow recruits are suddenly in the thick of it without any training & the enemy is hunting them. All they have on their side is the most artful sergeant in the army & a vampire with a lust for coffee. Well.. . They have the Secret. & as they take the war to the heart of the enemy they have to use all the resources of.. .the Monstrous Regiment. ...

Will Henry is an orphan & assistant to a doctor with a most unusual specialty: monster hunting. Working by the doctor's side Will must help fight back against creatures from the darkest myths & legends in human history to protect the people of the world. ...

CAN TWO STRANGERS BE A MATCH MADE IN THE WEST? Willa Conner learned a long time ago that love is only in fairytales. Shes been left widowed pregnant & penniless & heri??last hope is the stranger who answers her ad for a husb&. Austin Dermot a hardworking Montana blacksmith doesnt know what to expect from a mail-order bride.i?? It certainly isnt the brave beautiful but scarred young woman who cautiously steps off the train... Trust wont come easily for Willa
- its hard for her to believe shes worthy of true love. But she doesnt need to worry about that because this is just a marriage of convenience...isnt it?
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