Have you ever met a yeti? What about the fearsome, flying ahool, lake-lurking Ogopogo or a sea serpent? No? Well, many brave explorers and unsuspecting eyewitnesses have, and they’re here to tell you all about it. “It was an enormous size, some thirty-five or more feet long … I was frozen with terror at this apparition.” How scary is that? Read the stories, consider the facts, study the frightening illustrations and then put on your thinking cap. Can you figure out what they really saw? From the award-winning team behind Real-life Mysteries, these terrifying tales are collected into six chapters, each with its own LET’S INVESTIGATE section, that will get your heart racing and your investigative brain working!

Susan is an author, editor and first-class fact finder who writes creative and educational books for children. Her book, Real-Life Mysteries, is the winner of the Blue Peter Book Award for Best Book with Facts 2018. She has been writing information books for children for over twenty years, but began her career as a non-fiction books’ editor with the BBC in London. She has lived in several different countries, including France and Malaysia, but is now based back in Reading, UK. She was a kid who always wanted to know about everything, so researches and writes the kind of books she would have liked as a child! Vicky Barker is b small publishing’s creative director and a Blue Peter Book Award winning illustrator for Real-life Mysteries. Vicky Barker graduated from Liverpool John Moores University and has designed and illustrated for publishers such as Usborne, Egmont and Catnip. For b small publishing, Vicky has illustrated the STEM Starters for Kids series, Paper Toys, Infographics for Kids, FACTS, Geographics and many more.