★Rights sold to China!
★Where do trunko, chupacabra and kraken live? What guards the griffin? Why were people afraid of foxes? How much poison does a two-headed snake have? This book is reminiscent of medieval bestiaries, alternating fantastic information about real-life animals with no less fantastic descriptions of fictional creatures and their habits. Since then, the knowledge of the world has stepped far forward, and yet the number of wonderful creatures is only increasing: in modern times, Nessie, Yeti, Tripodero and others have entered the company of the griffin, phoenix and basilisk.
★The author of the book, Ekaterina Stepanenko, collected a real dossier for each of the monsters, and the artist Paulya Plavinskaya painted their portraits, illustrated habits and habitats. In addition, interesting games and tasks are waiting on the readers' pages, and the world map at the beginning of the book will show where fantastic creatures live.
★English translation sample available!

From time immemorial people believed there are all kinds of wondrous creatures in faraway places. They fly in the air and swim deep in the ocean waters and hide in the mountains. Some of them are dangerous and some can bring you wealth and even eternal life.
Some have been hunted for hundreds of years and are still sought today. This book describes some of the bizarre creatures born by humankind’s fantasy: their habits and habitats and what science has to say about the possibility of their existence.
Here you will find unicorn and cockatice, dragon and kitsune, the kraken and the Nessie, tripodero and bigfoot and many others.

【Author】Ekaterina Stepanenko
Ekaterina Stepanenko was born on October 22, 1986 in Moscow. The author, editor of the publishing house “Walking in history”, is a historian by education (she graduated from the Faculty of History of Moscow State University named after MV Lomonosov in 2008, trained at the universities of Warsaw and Bologna). Co-author of many educational books in the publishing house “Walking to history” (“I don’t want to learn. History of schools in Russia”, “Archeological walks around Pompeii”, “Medieval labyrinth”, “Egyptologist's workbook”, “Guest from Ancient China”, etc. ), co-author of the children's guide to the State Historical Museum "We go to the museum." The author of the "Book of cold, ice and snow" (received the award "The Image of the Book" in 2018) and "Fantastic animals from around the world."

【Illustrator】Paula Plavinskaya
Paul Plavinskaya was born on March 30, 1991 in Moscow. Artist, illustrator, co-founder of the independent bookstore "Marshak". From 2006 to 2011 she studied at the Institute of Journalism and Literary Art at the faculty of photojournalism, from 2013 to 2015 - at the British School of Design at the faculty of illustration. She works with the information portal “Such Cases”, drew for the magazines “Kommersant Science”, “RBC”, and works with the publishing houses “Walking in history”, “Barbaris”, “AST”. In 2018, she became the winner of the “Image of the Book” award for the “Book of Cold, Ice and Snow” (“Walking to History” publishing house). Lecturer illustrations in the "Workshop Book" in the "Manege." In 2017, a personal exhibition was held in Riga in the gallery "CUB". Together with the team of special projects "Such Affairs" winner of the World Press Photo (WPP)2018 for the project "Lived-by" in the category Digital Storytelling Contest.