Eric Carle's Dragons, Dragons

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.