Fiery dragons, playful centaurs, the mysterious garusa, the web-footed bunyip--these and other mythological creatures abound in Eric Carle's Dragons Dragons. In this companion volume to Eric Carle's Animals Animals, he celebrates mythology and legends from around the world, and breathes life into the creatures that inhabit them. Illustrating poetry from such authors as Anne McCaffrey, X. J. Kennedy, Myra Cohn Livingston, and John Gardner, Eric Carle invites readers of all ages to enter the fabulous world of Dragons Dragons & other creatures that never were.
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Strange that I love some of the books Carle illustrates and feel quite ‘meh' about others.
Though the loved v. meh books have some things in common:
Love: white background, vibrant images
Meh: vague patterned backgrounds competing with muddy foreground images
Love: simple narratives, especially if there's an element of interaction/tangibility in the book's setup
Meh: collections of others' words on a theme used as prompts for illustrations
This book was a collection of poems by others, most of which were bordering on the dumb kind of silly about mythological creatures, or not particularly good, and then there were a few poems about figures from religions/cultural spiritualities which feels kind of weird to end up in a book with the word ‘creature' in the title. 😬
Shout out to the mermaid and Chinese Dragon art pieces, the saving graces for me.
