Beautifully updated with fresh color, this new edition of the engaging and delightful Astronaut Academy series will have readers dreaming of space adventures, friendship, and Dinosaur driving lessons.

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But when I hear somebody say that, besides thinking, “Oh, I want to hang out with this guy,” I hear a sense of wonder. Join two bug friends as they learn about the science of the world around them and the meaning of friendship in this early graphic novel series perfect for fans of Narwhal and Jelly!

Tucked away in a government facility nicknamed the Playroom, six not-quite-human kids learn to control their strange and unpredictable abilities. I loved how it read and you can really hear Ocker’s personal voice and excitement of these creatures while you read. Anyway, there’s this incredible way that the author employs a third-person limited POV that gets me every time, even on the hundredth read.

Cryptids | J. W. Ocker | 9781683693222 The United States of Cryptids | J. W. Ocker | 9781683693222

Hunting Monsters zeroes in on some of the more mysterious creatures said to haunt our forests, lakes, and the deep ocean. Most of our lives are really boring, mundane, so if anything is new and wonderful and beautiful, we’d love to welcome it. Entities that may be considered cryptids by cryptozoologists include Bigfoot, Yeti, the chupacabra, the Jersey Devil, the Loch Ness Monster, or Mokele-mbembe.We spent a lot of time on the internet in the late '00s, looking at videos of alleged sightings, articles with questionable credibility, and random documentary clips that had been put on YouTube. There are so many different Bigfoot stories and legends out there from folk tales to movies, from Sasquatch to Boston Bahumagosh, Mart and Cabre have collected them all here.

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When Alexander Cold’s parents must leave home for his mother’s cancer treatment, he is sent to New York to stay with his eccentric grandmother Kate. Whether you believe in bigfoot or not, this fully illustrated compendium is a fun, frightening, fascinating tour through American folklore and history, exploring the stories we tell about monsters and what those stories say about us. Other cultures are better at embracing the spiritual side, so monsters to them are kind of like, of course there’s monsters. Since cryptozoology was established in its modern form in the fifties, the definition has widened to encompass even more fantastical creatures as more people grow interested in the topic. It was a dark creature with a thick mane in both genders; besides the elements, their prides were the deadliest things to encounter in the far north.When Vanessa's mother was a cryptozoologist, she tried to find proof that certain cryptids were real.

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One page had a Bigfoot garden statue… the adjacent page had a garden flagstone with a zombie coming up out of the ground. There’s a museum downtown where they sell these ceramic lanterns based on it, and they have chairs shaped like these Flatwoods Monsters all over the place, and they’re really cool. Souliere argues that the ecosystem around the area is perfectly suited for a large primate to live in.Other endeavors to which she has dedicated herself include cuddling her dogs until they’re annoyed and taste-testing every vegan ice cream she can find. He loved to scare with local legends and ghost stories spun with his special brand of creepiness and humor. I wish there were illustrations for all the cryptids, but I also understand the publishing constraints on that type of thing. Welcome to the United States of Cryptids, where mysterious monsters lurk in the dark forests, deep lakes, and sticky swamps of all fifty states.