books about: bestiary

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Bestiary

Pauline Baynes

Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, 2006

Lovely illustrations
Yes, it's for young readers. Gorgeous pictures, and text that explains what early bestiaries had to say. I use this with my history crafts classes.

The Bestiary

Nicholas Christopher

Dial Press Trade Paperback, 2008

An intelligent and gripping collision of mythology and biography
The Bestiary is Nicholas Christopher's fifth novel, and like its predecessors, it's full of that peculiar magic that springs from the unexpected intrusion of lost mythologies into everyday life. The novel sketches out part of the life story of its central character, ...

The Mythic Bestiary: The Illustrated Guide to the World's Most Fantastical Creatures

Tony Allan

Duncan Baird, 2008

Featuring over 100 color illustrations and line drawings
Featuring over 100 color illustrations and line drawings, The Mythic Bestiary is an illustrated guide to fantastic creatures from worldwide folklore. Each entry features several pages that summarize the legends and history of a given mythic animal, told in an eminently ...

A Wizard's Bestiary: A Menagerie of Myth, Magic, and Mystery

Oberon Zell-Ravenheart, Ash Dekirk

New Page Books, 2007

Where to begin
This shows a number of mythological creatures, the cultures they came from, and what fossil, animal, etc, most likely helped spawn their creation in the minds of man.

Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: Old World Bestiary, Vol. 1

T.S. Luikart, Ian Sturrock

Black Industries, 2008

A definite addition to any Game Master
I have to say I like this "monster companion" much more than some of the other rpgs that are out there at the moment. Instead of giving one or two paragraphs about the monster, and the main focus being on the statistics of the monster, this supplement to the WFRPG is ...

Advanced Bestiary (Dungeons & Dragons d20 3.5 Fantasy Roleplaying)

Matthew Sernett, William C. Eaken

Green Ronin Publishing, 2004

Go beyond the base monster!
The core creatures of D&D are well known to every player. That's as it should be. Everyone would rather fight a minotaur whose legend extends back to the dawn of civilization than a smeerp which the DM thought up on the spur of the moment because he was frustrated that ...

Bestiary

Robert Masello

Berkley, 2006

Good, But There Were Loose Ends
This is the first book I have read by this author. It seems like a really good story that goes along enjoyably, but then doesn't really come together well in the end. The potential to be a one of a kind, fantastic book was lost in the last few pages.

World of Warcraft Bestiary (Brady Games Official Strategy Guide) (Brady Games Official Strategy Guide) (Brady ...

BradyGames

Brady Games, 2008

WoW Bestiary
Excellent product and is a pretty good help for looking up beasts info in the game. It does help to let you know what you may be up against in a given area.

Bestiary: Being an English Version of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS Bodley 764

Richard Barber

Boydell Press, 2006

An affordable treat for bibliophiles
There is something quintessentially appealing about the rare reproduction which manages to preserve so much of the spirit of the original text. The translation, which is quite clear, is embedded with the original illuminations found in the manuscript, in their ...

Sowa's Ark: An Enchanted Bestiary

Michael Sowa

Chronicle Books, 1996

Pure pleasure...
Like some kind of low brow Mark Tansey, Sowa creates images that truly stop you in your cerebral tracks with their weight and mystery. And he does this while being damn funny. The tragic and sometimes amusing conflicts between the human world and the natural world ...

Conan: Bestiary of the Hyborian Age (Conan (Mongoose Publishing))
Bryan Steele

Mongoose Publishing, 2008

Creeping forth from the shadowed tombs and haunted forests of the Hyborian Age come creatures previously unseen by man, exotic animals from the far corners of the world and coiling horrors to test even the mettle of Conan himself. From colossal animals, avatars of nature's fury, to ancient and unholy things that have slithered in the darkness ...

True20 Bestiary

Erica Balsley

Green Ronin Publishing, 2006

An essential True20 reference book
In my review of the True20 Adventure Roleplaying rule book, I gave the product four stars because I felt that the last seventy or so pages of the book were taken up with sample campaign settings which I considered filler. I'm please to say there is no filler in True20 ...

Mythological Creatures: A Classical Bestiary

Atheneum, 2008

Tales about proud gods and goddesses, fabulous creatures, ferocious beasts, and brave heroes from the world of Greek mythology have captured the imaginations of readers, young and old, for centuries. Now see them brought to life like never before, as acclaimed author and artist Lynn Curlee turns his brush to a subject that is unlike any other to ...

In the Floyd Archives: A Psycho-Bestiary

Sarah Boxer

Pantheon, 2001

Get Lost in This Amazing Archive
Sarah Boxer has a gift for twists, turns, ins and outs of an outrageous set of characters. Floyd is to comic culture what jazz was to Mondrian -- inventive, subversive and inspiring. How could a journalist from the NY Times have such a fertile mind and imagination to ...

Big Book of Dragons, Monsters, and Other Mythical Creatures (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)

Ernst Lehner, Johanna Lehner

Dover Publications, 2004

Son loves it
My son loves this book because of the assortment creatures pictured in the book. He has n't seen most of these before so I figure thats the reason for the love of this book.