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Improve your reading skills while learning about myths, legends, fairytales, and folklore.These fantastic retellings feature great stories from mythology about terrifying dragons and monsters, magical winged animals, the undead, gods and goddesses, and shapeshifters.Mythical Beastsis a new title in the exciting and engaging four-level DK Readers series. Developing a lifelong love of reading, DK Readers cover a vast range of fascinating subjects featuring DK's stunning photography, to support children as they learn to read.
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Mythical Beasts By Andrea Mills Editors Katy Lennon, Kritika Gupta US Editors Shannon Beatty, Megan Douglass Project Art Editors Emma Hobson, Yamini Panwar Art Editor Roohi Rais Jacket Coordinator Francesca Young Jacket Designer Suzena Sengupta DTP Designers Dheeraj Singh, Nand Kishor Acharya Picture Researcher Sakshi Saluja Illustrator Dan Crisp Producer, Pre-Production Dragana Puvacic Producer Barbara Ossawska Managing Editors Laura Gilbert, Monica Saigal Managing Art Editor Diane Peyton Jones Deputy Managing Art Editor Ivy Sengupta Delhi Team Head Malavika Talukder Creative Director Helen Senior Publishing Director Sarah Larter Reading Consultant Linda Gambrell Educational Consultant Jacqueline Harris Reading Consultant Linda Gambrell Educational Consultant Jacqueline Harris DK Digital Content, London Digital Producer Alex Valizadeh Digital Operations, Delhi Production co-ordinator Manish Bhatt DK Creative Team, Delhi Mohd Zishan, Prerna Grewal First American Edition, 2018 Published in the United States by DK Publishing 345 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014 Copyright © 2018 Dorling Kindersley Limited DK, a Division of Penguin Random House LLC All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under the copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise), without the prior written permission of the copyright owner. Published in Great Britain by Dorling Kindersley Limited A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. eISBN: 9781465484543 The publisher would like to thank the following for their kind permission to reproduce their photographs: (Key: a-above; b-below/bottom; c-center; f-far; l-left; r-right; t-top) 3 Dreamstime.com: Breakermaximus (br). 5 Dorling Kindersley: The University of Aberdeen (bl, c, br). 7 akg-images: Roland & Sabrina Michaud. 8-9 Alamy Stock Photo: Ivy Close Images. 10-11 123RF.com: Lorelyn Medina. 12 Dorling Kindersley: Newcastle Great Northern Museum, Hancock (bl). 13 123RF.com: Anton Tokarev. 14 Science Photo Library: Jamie Chirinos (clb). 15 Bridgeman Images: Pictures from History / Woodbury & Page (cra). Getty Images: Nigel Pavitt (cb). iStockphoto.com: VeraPetruk (cla). Rex by Shutterstock: Nathan Anderson (crb). 18 Alamy Stock Photo: Witold Skrypczak. Dreamstime.com: Alinamd (Clouds). 22 123RF.com: Rafael Ben-Ari (bl). 23 123RF.com: Richard Whitcombe (br). Alamy Stock Photo: World History Archive (tr). TopFoto.co.uk: Ullsteinbild (cl). 25 Alamy Stock Photo: Sabena Jane Blackbird. 26-27 iStockphoto.com: MadKruben. 28-29 123RF.com: Tawatchai Prakobkit. 30-31 Alamy Stock Photo: The Granger Collection (b). 31 Dreamstime.com: Breakermaximus (c). 32 123RF.com: Vera Petruk (cl). Dreamstime.com: Luca Oleastri (br). 33 Alamy Stock Photo: William Brooks (clb). Dreamstime.com: Restavr (r). 34-35 Depositphotos Inc: Russian-photo. 36 Alamy Stock Photo: North Wind Picture Archives. 38-39 123RF.com: pbqhf427. 40-41 Alamy Stock Photo: Science History Images. 44-45 123RF.com: Vilainecrevette. 44 Getty Images: DEA / G. Nimatallah / De Agostini (cr). 45 Alamy Stock Photo: Ivy Close Images (tl); Matthew Wight (bl). 47 123RF.com: M