This beast was a group creation. A bunch of young people and myself dreamed it up in Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim, earlier this year.

The Deinotherium (dy-noh-THEER-ee-um) was a relative of the elephant. They could grow to be 4.5 metres tall. This creature had the misfortun...

Kid's writer and illustrator Maurice Sendak died recently. His book Where the Wild Things Are has stoked up millions of imaginations si...

This photograph is doing the rounds on the internet lately. The floating creature is a Lion's Mane Jellyfish, a real creature but this p...

Can any reader identify this creature by its skull? This is a beast that is still alive in the world today. No other clues, not for a while ...

Top this. An origami kraken made from a single piece of paper 25 inches across. No cuts, just folds. The creator remarks (and I quote becaus...

If you’re doodling a monster there is one quick way to ensure the viewer knows it’s a genuine out-of-the-subconscious monstrous creation and...

It has been a while since we’ve had a Japanese monster, so here’s one now. David Maybury of Children’s Books Ireland drew my attention to t...

Newfoundland is in North-East Canada. I have a friend from there and he recently sent me a copy of this poster. It could be found pinned up ...

Hello to everyone I got to meet during my events in a couple of Queens libraries this month. Some drawing was done and I include a selection...

Physica Curiosa was a reference book of bizarre animals and nightmarish humanoid creatures that, in 1662, were thought to be living out the...

Hello to all the kids of Belfast’s Lower Ormeau who I meet with recently. They were all taken out for the morning to Queen’s University and ...

Last night I put down the final word of book three. However it might change, as might many of the words that came before it. It is still unt...

Gustave Doré was born in 1832 and taught himself to draw as a child. He went on to become a famous illustrator. He had a particularly good e...

If you were paying attention in class you’ll know that alliteration is the repetition of sounds at the beginning of words, often just the fi...

Recently I discovered something called the Home University Roscommon Leitrim. HURL events consist of members of the public giving a lecture ...

I have begun school visits and giving presentations at bookshops. I enjoy meeting readers and hearing their views. I am sometimes surprised ...

200 million years ago much of the dry land on earth was gathered into a supercontinent called Pangaea. The waters surrounding it could be ca...

In Japan, parents warn their children about the Kappa. The Kappa is a water imp that smells of fish, eats cucumbers and has a head shaped li...