Education/General Interest

Defining the word monster is often based on our perspective (to a small rodent the common housecat could fit the description), so Dorling Kindersley's Eyewitness Video: Monsters guides us through many perspectives on the creepy world of things that go bump in the night. There are plenty of odd-looking animals that fit the bill, and plenty adorable ones that do monstrous things, or perhaps there are no such things as monsters and they were only developed as moral lessons in ancient cultures to keep the faithful just that -- faithful. This thirty-five minute video starts with a discussion of Eastern and Greek mythology to discover where some monster legends are born. Other monsters were taken from the pages of real history: Dracula, for example, was supposedly a cross between the real-life... Less

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