A Field Guide to Monsters: Googly-Eyed Wart Floppers, Shadow-Casters, Toe-Eaters, and Other Creatures (4.5/5 stars, ages 9 and up, currently priced at $3.99)
In this delightfully gruesome collection, renowned monstrologist Johan Olander guides you through the world between reality and fantasy, where the creatures of your worst nightmares appear—even in your sock drawer!
With this essential field guide, you’ll:
*learn about monster habitats, life cycles, and how to avoid the most dangerous creatures
*see historical evidence of monster sightings (from claw prints to cave carvings)
*read about chilling monster encounters
*find out how you can become a monstrologist, too
A Field Guide to Monsters profiles more than twenty-five previously undocumented monsters. Olander will stretch your imagination to new limits with his impressive research, colorful observations, and eye-popping ink-and-digital artwork that reveal a madness unsurpassed.
My Robots: The Robotic Genius of Lady Regina Bonquers III (4.5/5 stars, ages 8 and up, currently priced at $3.99)
In this intriguing volume, noted monstrologist and alienologist Johan Olander reveals the works of the talented inventor Lady Regina Bonquers III, a genius recluse who mysteriously disappeared in 1972. The collection includes some of the most fascinating robots ever seen—and some never before seen. Shown here are Lady Regina’s sketches and notes, as well as marketing brochures, newspaper articles, and other artifacts of these machines. Inside you’ll find:
-Interplanetary battle bots!
-Giant firefighting robots!
-Building bots going berserk!
-A pocket-sized Personal Grooming Robot (for plucking unwanted nose hairs)!
-The snuggliest, cuddliest hugging robot you’ve even seen, and more!
Discover these amazing inventions and form your own theories about what really happened to Lady Bonquers. The imaginative text and artwork combined with an elaborate steampunk-inspired design make for an engaging package that will have kids dreaming up their own robots.
A Field Guide to Aliens: Intergalactic Worrywarts, Bubblonauts, Silver-Slurpers, and other Extra Terestrials (4/5 stars, ages 9 and up, currently priced at $1)
“A Field Guide to Aliens” is the first truly comprehensive guide to Earth’s extraterrestrial visitors and includes profiles of more than twenty-five previously undocumented aliens. With this essential field guide, you’ll: learn about each alien’s origin, diet and distinguishing features; check out their cool tech gadgets (from lasersaws to slime grenades); get the most up-to-date information on alien sightings; see the undeniable evidence of aliens on our planet (from a giant club found in the countryside to an oddly familiar helmet and mask left in a living room; and, find out how you can become an alienologist, too. Have you ever noticed strange words spelled out in the night sky? Do you know which alien can’t be alone? Are you sure that a Knutt has never played a prank on you? Find out all of that and more in this delightfully eerie collection of extraterrestrial lore.
An Eyeball in My Garden: And Other Spine-Tingling Poems (4.5/5 stars, ages 9 and up, currently priced at $3.99)
From spiders to mummies to the elusive Boogeyman, these pages hold a little bit of everything creepy, crawly, and just plain spooky. With a pinch of terror and a dash of humor, readers will be cast into a shadowy world, where creatures lurk and nightmares dwell. Surprises abound on every page, waiting to pull in readers…sometimes literally….
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