The Big, Bad Book of Beasts

Author: Michael Largo
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062087460
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 611

Book Description
The world's wildest collection of animal knowledge and lore! Lions, and tigers, and bears . . . and dinosaurs, dragons, and monsters. Oh my! For hundreds of years, the most popular books in the Western world next to the Bible were "bestiaries," fanciful encyclopedias collecting all of human knowledge and mythology about the animal kingdom. In these pages, eagles and elephants lived next to griffins and sea monsters. Now, in The Big, Bad Book of Beasts, award-winning author Michael Largo has updated the medieval bestsellers for the twenty-first century, illuminating little-known facts, astonishing secrets, and bizarre superstitions about the beasts that inhabit our world—and haunt our imaginations. You'll learn about the biggest bug ever, the smallest animal in the world, and the real creatures that inspired the fabled unicorns. You'll discover how birds learned to fly, why cats rub against your legs, and a thousand other facts that will make you look at nature in a wonderfully new way. Did you know? The fastest animal in the world is the peregrine falcon, which reaches speeds of over 200 miles per hours. Circus ringmaster P.T. Barnum fooled many when he displayed a "mermaid" carcass that was later proved to be monkey bones sewed together with the body of a fish. Discovered in a remote volcanic crater in New Guinea, the Bosavi wolly rat grows to the size of a cat. President Andrew Jackson bought an African gray parrot to keep his wife company. The bird outlived them both and was removed from Jackson's funeral for cussing in both English and Spanish. A to Z: From Aardvark to Zooplankton! For all ages! Includes 289 illustrations!

The Big, Bad Book of Botany

Author: Michael Largo
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 006228276X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 372

Book Description
David Attenborough meets Lemony Snicket in The Big Bad Book of Botany, Michael Largo’s entertaining and enlightening one-of-a-kind compendium of the world’s most amazing and bizarre plants, their history, and their lore. The Big, Bad Book of Botany introduces a world of wild, wonderful, and weird plants. Some are so rare, they were once more valuable than gold. Some found in ancient mythology hold magical abilities, including the power to turn a person to stone. Others have been used by assassins to kill kings, and sorcerers to revive the dead. Here, too, is vegetation with astonishing properties to cure and heal, many of which have long since been lost with the advent of modern medicine. Organized alphabetically, The Big, Bad Book of Botany combines the latest in biological information with bizarre facts about the plant kingdom’s oddest members, including a species that is more poisonous than a cobra and a prehistoric plant that actually “walked.” Largo takes you through the history of vegetables and fruits and their astonishing agricultural evolution. Throughout, he reveals astonishing facts, from where the world’s first tree grew to whether plants are telepathic. Featuring more than 150 photographs and illustrations, The Big, Bad Book of Botany is a fascinating, fun A-to-Z encyclopedia for all ages that will transform the way we look at the natural world.

Big Bad Beast

Author: Shelly Laurenston
Publisher: Kensington Books
ISBN: 0758231717
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368

Book Description
From the author of "The Beast in Him" and "Beast Behaving Badly" comes an action-packed, blazingly sensuous novel featuring an irresistible shape-shifter hero.

How to Draw Big Bad Bible Beasts

Author: Royden Lepp
Publisher: Zonderkidz
ISBN: 0310866316
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 76

Book Description
Drawing Bible creatures—especially the mysterious ones—is exciting, challenging, and fun. And there’s no better way to understand them more. With easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions, How to Draw Big Bad Bible Beasts gives you the power to create realistic images of the animals from your favorite Bible stories, including the noble horse, the majestic lion, and even the mighty Leviathan. What’s more, this guidebook from the 252 series for boys teaches you how to draw accurate pictures of any Bible creature you choose, by using your mind and imagination to transform facts from Scripture into lifelike figures in your sketchbook. The beasts of the Bible will come roaring off its pages!

Big Bad Wolf (Wolf Duet Book 1)

Author: Diana A. Hicks
Publisher: Hicks Media Group, Inc.
ISBN: 1949760375
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
To save my family, I agreed to marry the butcher. But then, I met Santino Buratti, the man who takes what he wants without asking—ruthless, powerful, and beautiful. Nothing could have prepared me for the monster who bought me. Nor the dark prince who saved me. A Note from Diana: Big Bad Wolf is book one in the Wolf Duet and is part of the Crime Society World.

Simon and the Big, Bad, Angry Beasts

Author: Ian De Haes
Publisher: Flyaway Books
ISBN: 9780664263553
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
When Simon gets mad, he gets REALLY mad. So mad that big, bad, angry beasts appear. At first Simon loves having the beasts around to help scare off anyone who upsets him, but over time he realizes that no one wants to be around him or the beasts. This makes Simon sad, so he decides to try to still his mind and practice being calm. And the beasts disappear! Featuring colorful and expressive illustrations, this insightful book helps children ages 4-8 learn how to handle their anger. A guide for parents and teachers in the back of the book features strategies for talking to children about their emotions along with various exercises they can use to cope with anger. Simon and the Big, Bad, Angry Beasts is a 2018 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist.

Big Bad

Author: Lily Anderson
Publisher: Disney Electronic Content
ISBN: 136807569X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 311

Book Description
Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Suicide Squad in this adult dark, rompy novel in which the most beloved villains from Buffy must team up to stop the Slayer from ending their evil universe! Demondale, Callifornia, 1999...Like Sunnydale, but whole lot more evil. Step into this alternate reality, where chaos reigns supreme. The Mayor's sun-shade has created permanent darkness over Sunnydale, fully opening the Hellmouth once and for all. Now the newly christened Demondale has become a safe haven for vampires, beasts, and all types of ruffians. It's never been better to be bad. Aspiring supervillains (and super nerds) Jonathan and Andrew attempt to hold their own in a town full of monsters, while eleven-hundred-year-old vengeance demon Anya is just looking for something to give her life purpose again, spending her days working at an evil juice bar. But soon word gets out that there's a new Big Bad on the scene, one more powerful and more destructive than anyone who has come before. She, of course, is Buffy the Vampire Slayer. And she's hell-bent on rooting out all of this reality's evil by any means necessary. Now Jonathan, Andrew, and Anya must recruit a team of Demondale's most notorious villains—including Angelus, Spike, Drusilla, and even Ripper the malevolent magic shop owner—in order to save their world. But it'll be no easy feat to put their pride and differences aside and stop the worst thing that has ever come to town: good. Written by acclaimed author and Buffy super fan Lily Anderson, this novel brings together Buffy's most devious and beloved villains from the Trio to the Whirlwind to Anya, Glory, and Vampire Willow. This is one apocalypse Buffy fans are not going to want to miss!

Big Bad Bible Giants

Author: Ed Strauss
Publisher: Zonderkidz
ISBN: 0310871522
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114

Book Description
Goliath might get all the press, but there are many other fearsome giants and towering men throughout the Old Testament and thrilling stories behind each one. In Big Bad Bible Giants, readers 8 and up encounter each powerful and massive man through large black-and-white illustrations and kid-friendly language that explores the background of each hulking giant and why they’re important, as well as interesting facts like what their massive weapons looked like and how many sheep it may have taken to satisfy their gigantic appetites—as well as the feats it took to bring these men to their knees. Bulging muscles, towering height, and earth-rattling footsteps … while it might sound like a description for the big green guy in the movies and comics, these words actually apply to the many giants found throughout the Bible who were at times just as angry, almost as strong, and prone to wanting to smash things when it came to battles against the Israelites. In Big Bad Bible Giants, the amazing facts (and myths) behind the giants of the Bible are explored in kid-friendly language, alongside large illustrations that show what these towering antiheroes may have looked like. From surprising-yet-accurate information on their diets, where they came from, and just how immense their weapons and appetites really were, the gigantic battles and wars against these men will have kids looking at the Old Testament in a completely new way. Big Bad Bible Giants: contains biblically sound information in language kids can relate to works as an age-appropriate reference guide for any child 8 to 12 learning more about the Bible contains large text and an open page design, along with lots of detailed illustrations, making it perfect for reluctant readers is part of the 2:52 series of books, which focuses on becoming more like Jesus as described in Luke 2:52

Cautionary Tales & Bad Child's Book of Beasts

Author: Hilaire Belloc
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486467856
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130

Book Description
Presents short verses involving naughty children and their violent ends due to their bad deeds, and verses describing different animals including a lion, a tiger, and a polar bear.

Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance

Author: Ruth Emmie Lang
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250112052
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353

Book Description
"Told with brains and heart" —Michelle Gable, New York Times bestselling author of A Paris Apartment "Bristles with charm and curiosity" —Winston Groom, New York Times bestselling author of Forrest Gump "A wholly original and superbly crafted work of art, Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance is a masterpiece of the imagination." —Lori Nelson Spielman, New York Times bestselling author of The Life List and Sweet Forgiveness "Charlotte's Web for grown-ups who, like Weylyn Grey, have their own stories of being different, feared, brave, and loved." —Mo Daviau, author of Every Anxious Wave Ruth Emmie Lang teaches us how to find magic in the ordinary in her magical realism debut Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance. Orphaned, raised by wolves, and the proud owner of a horned pig named Merlin, Weylyn Grey knew he wasn’t like other people. But when he single-handedly stopped that tornado on a stormy Christmas day in Oklahoma, he realized just how different he actually was. As amazing as these powers may appear, they tend to manifest themselves at inopportune times and places, jeopardizing not only his own life, but the life of Mary, the woman he loves. Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance tells the story of Weylyn Grey’s life from the perspectives of the people who knew him, loved him, and even a few who thought he was just plain weird. Although he doesn’t stay in any of their lives for long, he leaves each of them with a story to tell: great storms that evaporate into thin air; fireflies that make phosphorescent honey; a house filled with spider webs and the strange man who inhabits it. There is one story, however, that Weylyn wishes he could change: his own. But first he has to muster enough courage to knock on Mary’s front door.