A Sea of Stars

There is absolutely no story in this book and, much like in A Gaggle of Geese and a Clutter of Cats, it somehow works. The illustrations are at once beautiful and slightly off-putting at the same time, but, in this case, it works because these are fantastic and/or fearsome fairytale beasts that are being portrayed. As for the collective nouns given to them, they were either spot-on or were too simple. A dignity of dragons was one of my favorites. As were a few others I need to reference the book for. A splash of mermaids was a little disappointing. The author also included a few pages explaining the creatures and their origins, which was nice, except that my copy was missing one of the pages with the really interesting creatures that I didn't know about.