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Copy of Blurb July 2020 C on te t st he o la n p st ag e! BF O R R E A DlE R S uO F C H I L D rR E N ' S NbO V E L S N O V E M B E R - D E C E M B E R 2 0 2 0 M C C R A C K E N C O U N T Y P U B L I C L I B R A R Y , P A D U C A H , K Y Mixed-Up In mCythorlogey, aa CHtIMuERAr waes d eIscsribesd aus ae beast with Yep, that's one a lion head, a goat head coming out of its back and a mixed-up creature. Click here snake for a tail. Sometimes it was also depicted as to see more. having wings and breathing fire. Since then, the word CHIMERA has come to mean any creature that has parts from different animals all mixed-up together. It may sound kind of weird, but it's more common than you think. Lots of these creatures appear in mythology, folk tales and fairy tales, like Pegasus, the Griffin, and Cerberus (that nasty three-headed dog that also has a snake for a tail). Yikes! Still think it's not that common? Well what about mermaids? There are gajillions of stories about mermaids and since they are part fish and part human, they're just as mixed-up as the rest. Click on this #1 Faun Newsletter! Fauns and satyrs are mythical creatures that Did you know that if you're reading are human on the top and goat on the this newsletter on a screen that most bottom...that is, they have a human face and of the images have clickable links? chest and goat legs. Stories about fauns and The picture of the finger on the left satyrs were told in ancient Greece and Rome will take you to the history of foam more than 2000 years ago, and the stories fingers, and the Chimera above will associated the creatures with music, dancing, take you to a page full of weird the forest, and magic. Sometimes they were 1. This faun lives in a animals. You never know where the pretty mischievous too. very cold place. links might take you...stories, art, 2. You might run into videos...could be anything. Except Shakespeare and Hans Christian Andersen him by a lamp-post. book covers. A book cover will both used fauns in their writing, but there are 3. He's good friends always lead you to the library's plenty of modern day examples, too. Brandon with a lion. website so you can check the book Mull's Fablehaven series features fauns, and out or put it on hold. Grover Underwood from Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series is a satyr. But DO you want ANSWER ON CREATE A NEW ANIMAL AND YOU to guess as to who the number one faun in NEXT PAGE COULD WIN A BOOK. all of literature is? Here are some hints... SEE LAST PAGE! Y O U C A N F I N D A L L T H E I S S U E S O F B L U R B A T M C L I B . N E T / B L U R B N O V E M B E R - D E C E M B E R 2 0 2 0 M I X E D - U P C R E A T U R E S I S S U E BIG WORD IN A SMALL SPACE - PORTMANTEAU Mer-Creatures A portmanteau (pronounced port -MAN-toe) is like the chimera of words. It's when you take a little bit from one word and a little bit from another to make a new word, like the word brunch, which is a combo of breakfast and lunch, or the word smog, which a mix of smoke and fog. The name of this utensil is a portmanteau. Know what it's called? Click on the pic for Mermaids (or Mermen) are half human and half the answer or look on the last page. fish, and of all the mixed-up creatures that have ever been created, they are probably the most popular. The oldest known stories about Oh, Deer mermaids came from Assyria (an area that occupied parts of present day Iraq, Syria and What is a Jackalope? Turkey) more than 3000 years ago. Since then, Hey, look! Jackalope is a portmanteau. It's a combination of the stories have been pretty much non-stop. The the words "jackrabbit" and "antelope." A bunny with antlers. word mermaid is a mash up of two Old English The legends and sightings of jackalopes originate in America's words: mere which means sea and maid which Old West. Some trace the stories to a prank pulled by some means young girl. Nearly every culture and brothers in Wyoming who, in the 1930s, mounted a pair of continent has mermaid legends: Ancient Greece, antlers on a stuffed rabbit and sold it to a hotel. the British Isles, India, China, Korea, Africa, the Caribbean Islands, and many more. And we have But there are also stories about rabbits with horns from other our legends too. Just check out some of these cultures as well that date back more than 800 years! There are books!! even drawings, like this one from a Flemish compendium of known mammals and reptiles that dates back to 1575. NEW MERMAID BOOKS Some scientists think that these AND THEN I TURNED INTO A sightings stem from a virus that MERMAID by Laura Kirkpatrick some rabbits carry that causes Molly Seabrook's dull seaside life Puppy tPhem ltoa growc hoern-like tumors is turned upside down when she on their skin. turns 13 and is let in on the Whatever the cause, the legend of the jackalope keeps going. family secret: she's PART- Have you ever seen the short film Boundin' by Pixar? The MERMAID! Molly isn't exactly main character is a jackalope. And then there's this new thrilled. book, The Royal Guide to Monster Slaying by Kelley Armstrong which features a baby jackalope. MAYBE A MERMAID by Josephine Cameron Eleven- year-old Anthoni is not the kind Click here Click here of kid who believes in fairies or for more on to watch unicorns, so she doesn't believe the book. the film. the local rumors about the Boulay Mermaid. #1 Faun SO WHO IS THE NUMBER ONE FAUN? MR. TUMNUS, of course, from C.S. CREATURE Quiz Lewis' The Lion, the Witch, and the Can you arrange the letters available in Wardrobe and his other Narnia the word CREATURE to spell the name books. All the Narnia books are of two three-letter animals that are available as ebooks and real books. mortal enemies in real life? ANSWER Click on the cover to check one out ON THE LAST PAGE! or put one on hold today! N O V E M B E R - D E C E M B E R 2 0 2 0 M I X E D - U P C R E A T U R E S I S S U E MANTICORE CERBERUS JACKALOPE GRIFFIN Human/Lion 3-headed Dog/Snake Jackrabbit/Deer Eagle/Lion MMIIXXEDED--UUPP CCRREAEATTUURREE WWOORRDDSSEAEARRCCHH PEGASUS Horse/Bird MERMAID Human/Fish COCKATRICE MINOTAUR Rooster/Snake Human/Bull HIPPOCAMPUS FAUN Horse/Fish Human/Goat BAKU CAPRICORN CHIMERA USHI ONI Elephant/Tiger Goat/Fish Lion/Goat/Snake Spider/Bull Find the words in BOLD! If you're online, you can open the puzzle in Adobe and use the highlighter tool to mark the words. Want to know more? Click on the pictures to go to each creature's Wikipedia page. It's a Bird, It's a Horse... S.P.A.R.K. It's PEGASUS! Solving Problems with artistic and Pegasus is one of the most recognizable creatures resourceful kids in all of Greek mythology, but how much do you really know of his legend? 1.You think your parents are weird? Pegasus is the son of Poseidon, the Greek god of the sea, and C r e a t e a N e w Medusa, the lady with snakes for hair. C r e a t u r e C o n t e s t 2.Fresh water springs pop up when Pegasus's You know what's wrong with all the creatures in this hoof strikes the ground. newsletter? They're old...very, very old. I think it's 3.Along with the hero Bellerophon, Pegasus time some new legends were made. Your challenge defeated the original Chimera. is to create a new chimera, a new creature made up 4.Pegasus carried Zeus's thunderbolts. of the parts of the other. Make it original, worthy 5.He has a brother name Chrysaor, a winged boar. of stories for years to come, and you could win a new book of your choice from a collection of Click the pick of Pegasus to read about his battle with the Kentucky Bluegrass Award winning books. Chimera. Or check out this six book Pegasus series by Kate O'Hearn which tells the story of Emily who sees Here's the rules: Pegasus crash onto a rooftop in Manhattan. 1. Mash-up two or more animals to make a brand new one. NO HUMANS, only animals. 2. Create your creature by drawing, sculpting, designing with a computer, pasting pictures together, or any other way you can think of.
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