Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
7.6
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
4003
Points per Word
0.00025
Page Count
48
Points per Page
0.020833
Description
Bestiaries, small illustrated books on all the creatures thought to exist in the world, are perhaps the most entertaining literature to have come down to us from the Middle Ages. They included detailed descriptions of mythological creatures.