#my brother had spyology

[picturebookshelf]

Dragonology: The Complete Book of Dragons (2003)

Text: Dugald Steer -- Art: Wayne Anderson, Douglas Carrel & Helen Ward

[bleppyboy]

i do not know the one book about dragonology actually, what was it? (also yes, good choice, dragons very good)

Congrats, Anon! You get to be one of today's lucky 10,000!

I'm talking about this big ol' book right here:

It was part of a series of books that were mostly epistolary (i.e. written as journal entries) in style, and ranged from semi-historical subjects such as Egyptology and Piratology, to fictional stuff like Wizardology and Monsterology, with a handful of modern-day stuff as well like Oceanology and Spyology!

(My brother got the Spyology one for his birthday one year and I was so goddamn jealous, and frankly read it more than he ever did)

They were massive and chunky books, with lots of little fold-out sections and extra notes in paper pockets, and gorgeous illustrations as you can see above. You'll still spot them in the kids sections of bookstores and libraries a lot of the time, as they make for excellent display books, even if they're... oh gods, they're nearly 20 years old now, I feel old....

But yeah! They're very pretty and very fun books, had plastic gemstones on the covers, and were exactly the sort of thing child-me (and adult-me, tbh) gravitated towards in bookstores