Brightdreamer's Book Reviews

 

 

Little Dragon

Folklore and Mythology

Tales of Great Dragons: CH: *****
Fabulous Beasts (with text by Joyce Hargreaves): ****
Mythical Beasts: ****
The Book of Imaginary Beings: ***
The Hero With a Thousand Faces: ****
The Encyclopedia of Monsters: *****
Animal Magick: ****
Dancing With Dragons: ****
Magickal, Mystical Creatures: *****
The Folktale Cat (editor): ***
Dragonlore: **+
Here Be Dragons: A Fantastic Bestiary (with Christian Delacampagne): ***+
The Little Giant Encyclopedia of Fortune-Telling: ****
The Little Giant Encyclopedia of Spells & Magic: ****
The Little Giant Encyclopedia of Superstitions: ****
Voices of the Winds: Native American Legends (with Ella E. Clarke): ****
An Illustrated Guide to Welsh Monsters & Mythical Beasts: ****+
Mythic Creatures (with Laurel Kendall, & Mark A. Norell): ****+
Mythology: A Visual Encyclopedia: ***
Dragons (with Val Clery): ***+
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Divination: ****+
The Sorcerer's Companion: A Guide to the Magical World of Harry Potter (with Elizabeth Kronzek): MG?: ****
The Blue Fairy Book; The Andrew Lang's Fairy Book series, Book 1: CH: ***
Big Book of Dragons, Monsters, and Other Mythical Creatures: ****
A Natural History of the Unnatural World (with the "Cryptozoological Society of London"): MG?: **+
The Book of Beasts: Color and Discover, illustrations by Angela Rizza: CH: ***+
The Element Encyclopedia of Magical Creatures: *****
Flying Snakes & Griffin Claws: ****
Dragons: Truth, Myth and Legend: CH: ****
Eyewitness Books: Mythology: MG?: *****
Living Wisdom: Animal Spirits: ****
Dragons: A Natural History: ****
The Evolution of the Dragon: ***+
The King of the Cats: ****
The Power of Gemstones: *****
Eyewitness: Mythology: YA?: *****

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Games and Sports

The Boys in the Boat: Nonfiction, History/Sports: *****
Seabiscuit: An American Legend: ****

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General Nonfiction

The Salmon of Doubt: *****

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Health, Anatomy, and Medicine

Written in Bone: ****
Anatomy of Movement: ****+
Cyclopedia Anatomicae: ****
Anatomy for the Artist (with Peter Stanyer): ***
Atlas of Anatomy (with Enrico Rigutti and Giunti Editorial Group): ****
Hallucinations: ***+

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History, Prehistory, and Archaeology

Abandoned Places: ***
Illuminated Manuscripts: ***+
The Red Canary: ***+
Why Does Everything Have to Be About Race?: ****+
The Boys in the Boat: *****
Newport Tower: Unsettled History: ***+
Last of the Giants: The Rise and Fall of Earth's Most Dominant Species: YA?: ***
How to Survive History: ****
Wreck of the Whale Ship Essex (with Thomas Nickerson and Ken Rossignol; edited by Huggins Point editors): **+
Extreme Science: MG?: ***+
She Persisted, illustrations by Alexandra Boiger: CH: *****
She Persisted Around the World, illustrations by Alexandra Boiger: ****+
The Truth About Animals: ****
Unbound: ***+
Arms and Armor of the Medieval Knight (with John Miles Paddock): *****
The Age of Wood: ****
Wicked Women: Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Ladies from the Old West: ***
The Smart Neanderthal: ****
The Sword and the Cross: Two Men and an Empire of Sand: ***+
Just My Type: ***+
Anatomy of a Castle: ***
The Wager: ****
The Encyclopedia of the Ancient Americas (with Fiona Macdonald, Philip Steele, and Michael Stotter): CH?: ***+
Eurekaaargh!: A Spectacular Collection of Inventions That Nearly Worked: ***
Let This Radicalize You (with Miriame Kaba): Nonfiction, Essay/History/Politics: ****
Dirigible Dreams: The Age of the Airship: ***+
Seabiscuit: An American Legend: ****
Knights: ****
Same as Ever: ****
Tuareg's Alphabet; The Forgotten Civilizatons of Africa series, Book 5: ***
The Encyclopedia of Mysterious Places (with Phillip Wilkinson): ***
Terry Jones' Barbarians (with Alan Ereira): ***+
Terry Jones' Medieval Lives (with Alan Ereira): ****
The Perfect Storm: ***
Arms and Armor in the Art Institute of Chicago: *****
How to Be an Antiracist: *****
The Maya: Life, Myth and Art: ***
Flying Snakes & Griffin Claws: ****
The Book of Alchemy: ***
The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in the Wild West; The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life series: ***+
Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters, illustrations by Loren Long: CH: ****+
An Introduction to Heraldry: ****
Paint Your Own Illuminated Letters: ***+
The Lady from the Black Lagoon: ****+
The Black Count: ***+
Fool Me Twice: Fighting the Assault on Science in America: ****+
The Neanderthals Rediscovered (with Michael A. Morse): ***+
The Lost City of the Monkey God: ****
The Lost Tomb: ****+
Native American History and Culture: **+
The Forgotten Arts & Crafts: ***
Cities: ****
Astoria: Astor and Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: ***+
Letters of a Woman Homesteader: ***+
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart presents Earth (the Book) (et al., editors): *****
They Called Us Enemy (with Justin Eisinger and Steven Scott), illustrations by Harmony Becker: *****
Riding the Rails: ***+
Last Ape Standing: ****
The Atlas of Mysterious Places (editor): ****
Insubordinate Spirit: **
Lost in Shangri-La: ****
Paleofantasy: ****

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Humorous Nonfiction

Things To Do While Avoiding Things To Do: **+
The Book of Imaginary Beings: ***
How to Avoid Making Art (Or Anything Else You Enjoy), illustrations by Elizabeth Cameron: *****
Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies: ****+
How to Survive History: ****
How to Master the Art of Procrastination: ***+
Duh!: The Stupid History of the Human Race: ***+
Hey, Idiot!: Chronciles of Human Stupidity: ****
Ryan Higa's How to Write Good: YA?: ****
Field Guide to the Apocalypse: ****+
It's Not Rocket Science: ****
The Worst Baby Name Book Ever: ****
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood: *****
How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question: ****+
Create Your Own Conspiracy Theory: ***+
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart presents Earth (the Book) (et al., editors): *****
Book Love: ***+
Soonish (with Zach Weinersmith): ****+
Where's My Jetpack?: ***

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Law and Crime

Written in Bone: ****
Why Does Everything Have to Be About Race?: ****+
The Detective Guide Book: *
The Lost Tomb: ****+
The Mueller Report (with Rosalind S. Helderman and Matt Zapotosky): ****

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Lettering and Typography

Just My Type: ***+
ABC of Lettering: ***
An Introduction to Heraldry: ****
Paint Your Own Illuminated Letters: ***+
The Art of Lettering with Pen and Brush: ****+

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