This document contains summaries of various mythological creatures in poetic form. It describes dragons, unicorns, phoenixes, griffins, and other fantastical beasts. The poems capture some of the key attributes and myths associated with each creature in simple yet vivid language appropriate for children.

2. IN THIS PICTURE BOOK WE SEE FANTASTICAL FIGURES.
MYTHOLOGICAL CREATURES OF ALL SHAPES, SIZES AND
ORIGINS COME TO LIFE
IN A POETRY COLLECTION.
FLAMES BURN; WAVES OF WATER CHURN; LARGE WINGS
BEAT. EVERY BEAST IS FILLED WITH STRENGTH AND
ENERGY.
MANY GRAND BEASTS ARE INDEED FEARFUL, BUT THERE
ARE COMIC POEMS TO ADD A SENSE OF RELIEF.
ERIC CARLE'S MAGICAL DRAWINGS TAKE THE CHILDREN
TO A NEW WORLD FILLED WITH
DRAGONS, UNICORNS, AND ALL KINDS OF FANTASTIC
CREATURES, THE WORLD OF A CHILD'S IMAGINATION.
AND ONLY ERIC CARLE CAN DO IT.

3. WHAT A FABULOUS WAY TO
INTRODUCE CHILDREN TO CLASSIC
AND MODERN POETRY.

4. Western dragons are
fierce, powerful, wise and
misery. The flames are
destructive.
Oriental dragons are
fierce, powerful, wise and
rich, but also quite benevolent.
DRAGON
THE WRITER WISHES THIS DRAGON TO TELL SOMETHING JOYFUL
AND HOPEFUL. IT IS VERY BIG; SYMBOL OF POWER.
IT HAS GOT FOUR LEGS; SYMBOL OF MISERY.

5. a mosque
The Myth: Middle Eastren _ Arabic bird from the Sinbad tales and
the tales of Marco Polo. This gigantic bird of prey had such
prodigious strenth, it transported elephants in its talons to feed its
nesting young . The story says the eggs are as large as the dome
of a mosque.
ROE:
Roe has behold the sun. We cannot see the sun. The air is now
dark and boring. It is too big. The poet hinks that a cloud covers
the sun. But it is not a cloud, it is an enourmous bird, Roe. It has
very huge wings and covers a very big surface. It carries
elephants to its babies. You know elephants are one of the
biggest animals in the World. Now imagine how Roe can carry
an elephant in its talons.

6. YETI
Yeti is like a man but it is not a man. It is a beast. We are lucky it
doesn’t exist. It walks like a man and has hair on his face. But
people talk that somewhere in the World, where man cannot
go, maybe in some forests, or in caves, or in the high and
snowy parts of Himalayas he may be living. Nobody knows if it
is true or not. If you meet him and ask whether he is YETI or
not, he will only answer MAYBE. We cannot be sure if he exists
or not.
The Myth :
• The Asian _ the
Himalayan abominable
snowman, an apelike
creature from the highes
reaches of the
mountains. It supposedly
walks upright like a
human and the Sherpas
of Nepal report many
sightings. The Yeti is
pictured in Tibetian
scrolls and manuscripts.

7. The Myth :
Greek- a half bull, half man who
was imprisoned an a certain
labyrinth built by Daedalus, the
arhitect. Minos, king of young men
and women from Athens to feed
this monster. It was finally slain in
the labyrinth by the Athenian hero
Theseus.
MINOTAUR
Minotaur is half bull and half man. All the people are
afraid of him. It eats greedily 14 kids a year. It lives in a
maze, you cannot find the way easily, it is complex. You
cannot escape from it. But Theseus the Greek hero
killed him with his sword shouting “OLES”.

8. BASILISK
IT HAS THE HEAD AND THE BODY OF A COCK. IT IS SO STRONG THAT IT CAN
CRACK A ROCH BY ITS BREATH. ITS WINGS ARE LEATHER. IT HAS THE TAIL OF
A SNAKE. IT HISSES LIKE A SNAKE.
THE MYTH: BASILISK: EUROPEAN-ALSO CALLED COCKATRICE. CONSIDERED
THE KING OF SERPENTS, ITS FIERY BREATH COULD BURST STONE AD ITS EVIL
GLANCE COULD KILL. IT COULD BE DESTROYED BY FORCING IT TO LOOK AT
ITS OWN REFLECTION. THE BASILISK WAS SAID TO BE BORN FROM A
ROOSTER’S EGG, HATCHED BY A TOAD.

9. The Myth :
Biblical – the monstrous sea creature from the Book of Job in
the Old Testament.
Leviathan
Leviathan makes the deep of
the sea boil like a pot. Sea is
moving like mixing ointment
in a bowl. And his trail behind
him is shinning. It is so
effective that the river looks
like white hair when
compared with it. And it is
unique, nothing like it on the
Earth.

10. The Myth :
European , North American a
serphent with a head at each end of
its body. It could loop itself and roll
like a hoop by putting one head
into the jaws of other. Some say it
appeared in Massachusetts in the
colony’s early days.
Amphisbaena
It has two heads. Nobody has seen a creature like it. It can
sleep with one head and wake with the other one, or it can
play with one and rest with the other. We cannot know which
head it is using. It is confusing. We cannot decide which
direction it is looking, or it is going.
It can do two activities at the same time. How difficult it is for
us to do it. We are amazed.

11. The Myth : American Indian - the mythic white buffalo who came in the gu
a young woman to the Lakota Sioux tribe to teach and guide the people
times of trouble.
The white buffalo woman comes to teach the people the songs an
prayers of the five ceremonies. It is wearing white dress. She loo
serious and wise.The woman disappears and there is a buffalo.
running .

12. The Myth : North –American Indian heroine
a crow of a Lenape tribe myth. To save the
animals from winter, it flew to the Great
Spirit in the sky and brought back the gift of
fire. Ever since then, the multicoloured
feathers of rainbow crow have been covered
with soot , and his beautiful voice has been
hoarse from the ashes he swallowed while
carriying the flaming stick in his beak.
The rainbow crow has colourful
feathers like rainbow. It flies and
carries flaming stick to protect animals
from winter. Because of the flames its
beak is covered with soot. His voice is
harsh because it swallows ashes

13. The Myth : Egyptian , Middle
Eastern, Asian – a mythical bird. It lived
to a greeat age reported to be from 500
to 7000 years. At the end of its life, it
burnt itself in a nest of flames and was
born again. Rising from its own ashes. İt
is a symbol of immortality.
The Phoenix is the fire bird. It
lives for long. It burns itself
at the end and then is born
again from its own ashes. So
it is a symbol of immortality.
It everlasts.

14. The Myth : European and
Middle Eastern – a composite
creature with the body of
lion, a head of an eagle, and
large, pointed ears that allow
the griffin tohear
exceptionally well. A
dangerous foe, it guards
treasure and gold and is a
hater of horses. It lays jewels
instead of eggs in a cliff-top
nest.
It protects Pharaohs and
defends the kings. It waches
their wealth, jewellery. It has
wings like an eagle and
clawns like a lion. It can hear
every whisper and thus
knows everything. It the
enemy of law breakers. You
may believe it or not.

15. The Myth : European and Middle Eastern- the offspring of
a horse and a griffin. It lives in a mountanious and when
not in the air, grazes on grasses. It appears in the poetry of
Virgil and is a symbol of poetic inspiration.
Hippogriff is the offspring of a
mare and a griffin. It has a
curious fate. It has hooves and
nails like a horse, and clows and
nail like an eagle. It likes to
gazzle on the grass and can fly
up in the air. When people see it
they are enslaved by it.

16. The Myth: European Assian – a magical horse with a twisted
horn growing from its forehead and the beard of a goat. First
described in Pliny as a ferocious beast with the feet of
elephant, it has evolved through the ages into more
benovelent and appealing creature. The medieval version
pictures it as a pure white horse of great strength and
beauty which can be captured only by an innocent young
maiden.
UNICORN
There is no animal like it.
Nobody has seen it. But
people like it. It is a symbol
of strenth and beauty. It
looks calmly with clear eyes.

17. The Myth : Greek- the god of woodland and meadow shepherds and
flocks. Pan was musical and invented the shepherd’s pipe . Pan is
sometimes used as a symbol of the universe and natural world.
The Pan
Pan is the symbol of natural
world. When Pan is passing
by the river the nature is
happy and becomes lively.
The sun forgets to set
down, the lilies revive.

18. The myth: Japanese – a water-dwelling trickster the size of a boy. The Kappa is said
to have spiky hair surrounding a saucer –shaped depression in its head which holds
water and is the source of its considerable strength . A lower wrestling and
cucumbers. İt gives off a fishy smell. People in lakes and rivers need to watch out for
Kappa as it will maliciously drag them under.
Kappa
It has a saucer (the water in it
keeps him alive) on his
head, and a carapace
(something like turtle shell) on
his back. It is like a naughty
child, makes tricks. You should
watch out, when you are asleep
he can steal anything from you
under water. But on the land he
is not strong, because when the
saucer begins to dry he rushes
to water to keep his cucumber-
carapace fresh. He needs water.