All ages

Take a monstrous journey through the Middle Ages to discover creatures both familiar and unfamiliar.

Explore the hazards of medieval life at the claws, paws and fangs of dragons, wyverns, cockatrices, lamias, manticores, ghouls and many other monsters!

Timothy Ide is an Adelaide based illustrator. He is best known locally for his work as a sketch artist for the TV News, capturing some of South Australia’s most notorious cases over the last thirty years. Timothy has also illustrated a number of children’s books, one of which, Tom the Outback Mailman written by Kristin Weidenbach and published by Hachette in 2012 won the Eve Pownall CBCA award in 2013. His most recent children’s books are King of the Outback, the Story of Sidney Kidman (2017), also by Kristin Weidenbach and Born to Fly (2019) by Beverley McWilliams, both published by MidnightSun Publishing. Medieval Monsters and Other Creatures is his first book as both author and illustrator. When he is not illustrating, Timothy enjoys wargaming and role-playing games. He practices armoured medieval fighting with the Society for Creative Anachronism.