About This Book:
Calling all fans of unicorns, dragons, sea monsters, and other mythical creatures! Discover 100 marvelous facts that add to the magic in this new reader for fluent readers.
Key features include:
- Expert-vetted text appropriate for ages 7 to 9
- Brilliant and eye-catching National Geographic images
- 100 fun facts spread throughout the book
- A fact roundup at the end of each book for kids to review what they’ve learned
Packed with weird-but-true facts and tons of info, this Level 3 reader explores animals that are mistaken for mythical creatures, critters that are almost too weird for reality, and other creatures with incredible abilities. Learn all about these amazing, unbelievable, and downright fantastical beasts!
About the series: This high-interest, educationally-vetted readers series features magnificent National Geographic images accompanied by text written by experienced, skilled children’s book authors. Each reader includes a glossary and interactive features in which kids get to use what they’ve learned in the book. Level 1 readers reinforce the content of the book with a kinesthetic learning activity. Level 2 readers feature slightly higher-level text and additional vocabulary words. Level 3 readers have more layers of information to challenge more proficient readers. For emerging readers, the Pre-reader level introduces vocabulary and concepts, and the Co-reader level provides a collaborative reading experience.
*Review Contributed by Beth Rodgers, Staff Reviewer*
Fascinating Creatures
Mythical Beasts: 100 Fun Facts about Real Animals and the Myths They Inspire,’ a National Geographic Kids book by Stephanie Warren Drimmer, has so many tales about creatures, both mythical and real. There are lots of real animals that seem to come from myths and legends, including a bird much like a phoenix that can rise from its ashes, animals that can camouflage themselves, and ones that can soar for extreme lengths of time or shoot blood from their eyes.
There are lots of mythical beasts in the book that any lover of the ‘Harry Potter’ franchise will enjoy reading more about, including a boggart, a phoenix, and a basilisk. Even though there are not really invisible creatures like boggarts, there are see-through creatures, and that is something new and exciting for many to learn. There is also an animal called an okapi that looks like part-horse, part zebra with its different colors, and they weren’t even known about beyond the local community in which they live in the African rainforest until 1901!
Along with the tons of facts that any animal lover will truly enjoy reading, there is a facts roundup at the end of the book to ensure that no one misses anything. This Level 3 Fact Reader is for anyone who finds the animal kingdom fascinating and can’t wait to learn more about everything that exists in it!
