Beasts And Monsters

By (author) ANTHONY HOROWITZ; By (author) Horowitz, Anthony
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Don''t mess with the gods. And if they mess with you? Run like hell ...
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A collection of five bite-size myths from across the globe, Beasts and Monsters by bestselling author Anthony Horowitz tells the thrilling tales of some of the most terrifying beasts from the world of legend.

Part of the Legends series of six books, Beasts and Monsters features the stories of fearless heroes and monstrous beasts, including Saint George and the Dragon and Perseus and the gruesome snake-headed gorgon Medusa.

Featuring black and white illustrations, the Legends series by Anthony Horowitz, the author of the phenomenally successful Alex Rider series, brings classic stories to life with thrilling imagination.

Biographical note
Anthony Horowitz is a prolific writer for film, theatre and television, but he is best loved for his brilliant children''s stories, which include the internationally bestselling series about teenage MI6 agent Alex Rider, which began with Stormbreaker. He lives in London.
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Anthony Horowitz, bestselling author of the Alex Rider series, brings classic stories to life in these gripping retellings. Packed with action and humour, each book in the Legends series contains a selection of short tales from across the globe; terrifying beasts, the ancient Greek Gods, heroes from Polynesian and English mythology, the afterworld from Indian and Norse myths, the dramatic tales of those who dared to defy the Gods in Inuit legends and the greatest stories of metamorphosis in Japanese and Chinese mythology, brought to life with black and white line drawings.

Relive classic myth and legends in Beasts and Monsters, Battles and Quests, Heroes and Villains, Death and the Underworld, The Wrath of the Gods and Tricks and Transformations.