Review: BigFoot Is Missing

4/9/2015

I recently received a stack of books from Raincoast. This book about Bigfoot Is Missing was one of the first books that my son grabbed.

It was a bit confusing to read until we got to the end of the book. There good descriptions were given about the different beings talked about in the pages of this colourfully illustrated book.

Bigfoot is Missing was written by J. Patrick Lewis and Kenn Nesbitt. It was illustrated by Minalima. The first page in Bigfoot is a page talking about what Cyptids are. Did you know that there are a god 400 cyptids in the world, scattered over every continent. Critters that there is no proof of existence but that many people believe to exist none-the-less? A quick search in google will bring up lists such as the "top 50 cyptids", "the 10 most bizarre cyptids". I knew about Loch Ness Monster, and Bigfoot, and I heard rumblings about a blood sucking fiend in South America, but there are so many I have never heard about! Shadow people I am familiar with as well.

What cryptids have you heard about?

Anyways, back to the book. Bigfoot is Missing is written in a fun, get to know you style. For the page on Bigfoot we read a "wanted poster", the page on the Kraken we are given a news article about helped needed on a ship, for the Mongolian Death Worm my son was caused to say "boy... that thing must be ugly" when we read the breaking story about tribesmen being attacked. The page about the mothman left him with a "HUH? I don't get this one" expression on his face, but when we turned to the back of the book for more information it was like "okay, that was funny. Do you think that would work mom?"