Bigfoot and Other Legendary Creatures - Hardcover

Walker, Paul Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0152071474 ISBN 13: 9780152071479

Publisher: Harcourt Childrens Books, 1992

Synopsis

Stories about seven mysterious creatures from Big Foot to the Loch Ness monster keep readers guessing about their existence, and are each followed by a factual account of the current scientific research and speculation about the creatures.

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A perfunctory introduction to seven ``monsters'' that might or might not be hiding out in some of the world's wilder places: the human-like Bigfoot, Yeti, and Mongolian Almas; Nessie, and Lusca, the giant octopus; the dinosaurian Mokele-Mbembe and the huge winged Kongamato, both of tropical Africa. All get unskeptical essays describing efforts to track them down and identify them, prefaced by fictional encounters--Bigfoot briefly kidnaps a young hunter; Kongamato buzzes a white man who spurns the protective magic of his native guide; a young Sherpa and her grandfather bait a trap for Yeti with beer; etc. Walker is no storyteller; though his language is sometimes lurid (``Between the tall trees, gnarled manzanita bushes grow like blood-red demons''), the episodes have a sameness--the monster appears, makes menacing gestures at a terrified human, and departs or escapes. Noonan's small, undetailed portraits lend some drama but are more suggestive than accurate; Kongamato, for instance, is seen with a long tail, though it's described in the text as a pterodactyl (and therefore tailless, or nearly so). Supplementary at best. The annotated bibliography, characteristically, mentions none of Daniel Cohen's books. (Nonfiction. 10-13) -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harcourt Childrens Books
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0152071474
• ISBN 13: 9780152071479
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 56
• Illustrator: Noonan William