Ernest Drake's Dragonology Handbook: A Practical Course in Dragons, [8] and Drake's Comprehensive Compendium of Dragonology [9] among others. Dr Ernest Drake gives us all manner of fascinating details on habitats, temperaments and training regimes, which play into that greatest of desires for children (and let's be honest, many adults too) - that dragons might really exist. For true believers only, a lavishly illustrated reproduction of a legendary volume by the world's most distinguished dragonologist. It is a faux-text book about dragons, talking about different kinds of dragons throughout the world.

Mock-serious academic advice on types of dragon, how to hatch and care for young dragons - all very tongue in cheek. My friend asked me why I was reading such a weird book, you see, I usually read different books than this one.I probably would have loved it more if I'd read it younger, since I think it's targeted at a younger age group--although I think I got some of the jokes more now, when I'm older and have more context. The series later expanded to include figures and models, a strategic board game, card game, and a video game for the Nintendo DS. For fleshing out your idea of dragons for your fantasy art or novels, it's perfect, and anyone with artistic sense will adorable the effort put into the illustrations. The publishers would eventually publish books with similar themes on the topics of wizardry, Egyptology, pirates, and monsters.

A wonderful, detailed, simply beautiful book, with gorgeous illustrations, secret messages and codes to crack.We use Google Analytics to see what pages are most visited, and where in the world visitors are visiting from. Keeping mum about this being fiction was kind of like keeping her believing in Santa Claus or the tooth fairy! Used books have different signs of use and might not include supplemental materials such as CDs, Dvds, Access Codes, charts or any other extra material. The illustrations are absolutely gorgeous and there are loads of little extras like fold out maps, flaps to look under, secret codes and even stroke-able textured skin samples with added glitter and sparkle.

This book, like the other books in the Ologies series, is assigned a fictional "author" who then acts as the narrator of the book. For anyone interested in writing about or drawing dragons, it proves invaluable, with it's wealth of high-quality artwork and descriptions on the creatures.In her final year at Brighton, Helen was awarded the first Walker Prize for Children's Illustration. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. The front cover has a beautiful dragon embossed in metallic red that shimmers when the light hits it (I've tried to show that in one of the pictures below but it's really hard to capture in a photo) and it's even embedded with three small green gemstones. The series contains information on dragons, including information about how to befriend and protect them as well as an alphabet of the dragon language, ancient runes, and replica samples of Dragon Scales.

So if you're looking for something thought-provoking, or, for the odder among you - 'proof' - then it will sorely disappoint. What makes it worse is that "Dragonology" still stands as one of the higher-quality and more convincing of the 'Ologies'. Ernest Drake on the dragons of the world, their biology, behavior, and history of their interactions with humans. It's great for both the young and old, I'm 24 years old and I love this book, my mom also really enjoyed it. Wayne Anderson (Illustrator) Wayne Andersen has been illustrating in his colour pencil style for over 40 years and is renowned for his playful imagination and fantastic imagery.For more details, please consult the latest information provided by Royal Mail's International Incident Bulletin. I read the whole thing to my youngest daughter, some of the words were beyond her comprehension level--not to mention pronunciation. He has written more than 100 books for Templar, including 11 titles in their hugely successful 'Ology series. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged.