Image Source: National Library of New Zealand Previously I have shared seven posts with ideas for exploring the Book Week slogan: Curious Creatures, Wild Minds My wild mind took an imaginary walk around the library and I realised nearly every Dewey section links with this slogan. (Here is a pinterest of Curious Creatures books) 001.944 monsters such as Yeti, Bigfoot, Kraken, Loch Ness Monster, Bunyips and more. These are all CURIOUS CREATURES! 220.9 OR 222 Noah's Ark Here are some books which retell the story of Noah. 398.20938 Aesop Fables 398.24 Tales and lore of plants and animals For example: unicorns, mermaids, dragons, griffin, Pegasus and more 428 Language Collective Nouns 590 Animals 595 Insects 597 Fish and reptiles 598 Birds (Pinterest of Australian bird stories) 599 Mammals 599.20994 Australian mammals such as Platypus 636 Pets Unusual pets: Axolotl, hermit crab, silkworm 750 Art 782 Music Carnival of the Animals 821 Poetry 900 History and Geography Animals listed below come from Ann Jonas Aardvarks, disembark! Julia MacRae, 1991. Curious Creatures from wild lands: Africa - addax; aoudad; bongo; dik-dik; duiker; eland; fennec; gerenuk; guereza; hammerkop, hartebeest; kingspringer; kudu; marabou; oribi; serval; vervey; zoril (Pinterest of Picture books) Middle East dromedary; lammergeier; markhor Europe mouflon; wisent; South and Central America caiman; capybara; coatimundi; guan; jagurundi; paca; pudu; tamandua; tuco-tuco; uakari; unau; vicuna, vizcacha; North America condor; jabiru; margay; nene; pika; pronghorn; wapiti; India chital; gaur; gavial; nilgal; wanderoo Asia babirusa; barasingha, binturong; fancolin; ibex; jerboa; onager; ounce; pangolin; pecccary; peludo; rasse; ratel; siga; sika; tahr; takin; tapir; New Zealand kiwi; takahe; tuatara; Australia bandicoot; cassowary; echidna; emu; kookaburra; quokka; wallaroo; wombat