Searching for el Chupacabra

Jennifer Rivkin

Book - 2015

With its claws and fangs and hunting for blood in the night, el Chupacabra is the stuff of nightmares. Many people insist that this mysterious Mexican monster is real, while others proclaim it a bedtime story. This intriguing volume uses a presentation of firsthand accounts and more to encourage well-rounded research and critical thinking skills.

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Published
New York : PowerKids Press 2015.
Language
English
Main Author
Jennifer Rivkin (-)
Physical Description
32 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 26 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (page 31) and index.
ISBN
9781477771136
9781477771143
  • What Is a Chupacabra?
  • What Chupacabra Looks Like
  • Where Chupacabra Prowls
  • The Mystery Begins
  • Nasty Behavior
  • Chupacabras in Puerto Rico
  • Chupacabras Elsewhere
  • Government Conspiracy Theory
  • Monster Hunters
  • Could It Be Real?
  • Scientific View
  • Chupacabra Cousins
  • What Do You Think?
  • Glossary
  • For More Information
  • Index
Review by School Library Journal Review

Gr 4-6-Characterized by well-balanced measures of skepticism and willingness to believe, these portraits of prominent cryptids offer a mix of tantalizing eyewitness accounts and legends, "evidence" either inscrutable or noted as proven bogus, and rousing, sometimes gruesome illustrations. Searching for the Yeti notes supposed evidence of the creature, such as sightings by Everest climbers Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay and photos of footprints taken by mountaineer Eric Shipton. The ravening beasts described and depicted in the volumes covering El Chupacabra (a creature "taking alarming eating habits to a whole new level.") and the Wendigo ("Cannibalism makes for interesting stories.") are particularly frightening and therefore likely to be a strong draw for young monster lovers. Searching for UFOs includes a juicy discussion of conspiracy theories, and elsewhere the author expands her major subjects to mentions of related creatures from kelpiesto the (original) Jersey Devil and the supposed "Wendigo Psychosis." This series overlaps but also extends John Hawkins's Bigfoot and Other Monsters (PowerKids, 2012). (c) Copyright 2014. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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