A children’s colouring and activity book all about monsters. It presents a repertoire of monsters, ogres, witches, and other legendary creatures from around the world. The MonsterPedia section at the end of the book offers the possibility of exploring subjects in more depth and fun details about each character. This interactive book encourages observation, imagination and creativity and provides children practice in reading different families of fonts and graphic styles. It also brings children closer to legends and customs from other parts of the world. Among the featured fearsome creatures you will find Big Foot (Nort America), Ogopog (Canada), Loch Ness Monster (Scotland), Mummy (Egypt), Troll (Scandinavia), Ogre (French), Chupacabras (Mexico), Ticoloshe (Africa) or Makara (India), and many others of all regions, times and cultures. With twenty cut-out templates.Vitor Escandell is also well known as the author of the titles My Wonderful World of Animals and Dinosaurs, My Beastly Activity Book.
AGES: 3-12 AUTHOR: Victor Escandell is a well-known Spanish illustrator. He got his degree on Graphic Design by the prestigious Massana School of Barcelona. He has worked for such important companies as MacCann-Erickson, TBWA, bassat & Ogilvy and several newspapers, as El Pais or El Mundo. In 2007 he was chosen for the exhibition of Catalan illustrators in Frankfurt Book Fair. REVIEW of PREVIOUS TITLE: … you really need to buy two copies: one for the kids and one for yourself! A Wonderful World of Animals is just such a book. Illustrated by Victor Escandell, this luscious book is a heady mix of kooky illustration of varying style, slipped onto pages brimming with striking typography that will send the Font Fanatic’s heart aflutter. Tania McCartney on Escandell’s A Wonderful World of Animals, Kids’ Book Review
