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Searching for El Chupacabra (Mysterious Monsters) Library Binding – July 30, 2014

by Jennifer Rivkin (Author)

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With its claws and fangs and hunting for blood in the night, el Chupacabra is the stuff of nightmares. Many people insist that this mysterious Mexican monster is real, while others proclaim it a bedtime story. This intriguing volume uses a presentation of firsthand accounts and more to encourage well-rounded research and critical thinking skills.

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Gr 4-6-Characterized by well-balanced measures of skepticism and willingness to believe, these portraits of prominent cryptids offer a mix of tantalizing eyewitness accounts and legends, "evidence" either inscrutable or noted as proven bogus, and rousing, sometimes gruesome illustrations. Searching for the Yeti notes supposed evidence of the creature, such as sightings by Everest climbers Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay and photos of footprints taken by mountaineer Eric Shipton. The ravening beasts described and depicted in the volumes covering El Chupacabra (a creature "taking alarming eating habits to a whole new level.") and the Wendigo ("Cannibalism makes for interesting stories.") are particularly frightening and therefore likely to be a strong draw for young monster lovers. Searching for UFOs includes a juicy discussion of conspiracy theories, and elsewhere the author expands her major subjects to mentions of related creatures from kelpies to the (original) Jersey Devil and the supposed "Wendigo Psychosis." This series overlaps but also extends John Hawkins's Bigfoot and Other Monsters (PowerKids, 2012).Bellwether's "Scariest Places on Earth" heaps up tasty chills aplenty for younger armchair travelers. Older children will delight in sinking their teeth into Powerkids' "Mysterious Monsters" and Creative Education's "Enduring Mysteries"-and if some readers find much of the "evidence" for these elusive creatures and phenomena hard to swallow, that's only healthy skepticism at work.α(c) Copyright 2014. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.