Mythical Creatures

A book for everyone! Large double-page spreads feature Kitchen's realisations of 13 creatures from Greek mythology and accounts of their background. With brief notes and maps to place the creatures, we might be in the realm of simple fact, but the quality shows in the detailed creation of the fantastic. These are pictures to set your mind moving: just turning the pages is a delight for pupils, but the discussions which bubble out show the power of the images. Have this book in the room for its own sake, but also as an accompaniment to retellings of the myths themselves and to use, perhaps, as a model for pupils' own mixing of fantasy in fact book form.