Posts tagged with 'Animals'

POSTED ON: June 23, 2015
FILED UNDER: Craft Corner, Fun Stuff
TAGS: Animals, Rebecca Levene

Craft Corner, Fun Stuff

The Hunter’s Kind Cosplay: How to Turn Your Dog into Rii

By Catherine Sullivan

Great novels inspire great cosplay. And the best novels inspire the cutest cosplay. Today we’re delighted to share with you the very best of the cute-best: guest blogger Catherine’s instructions for turning a dog into Rii, the wonderful bat-like monster from Rebecca Levene’s Smiler’s Fair and The Hunter’s Kind!

Warning! This post contains the cutest dog-dressed-as-a-giant-batlike-monster pictures you’ve ever seen.
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POSTED ON: March 4, 2015
FILED UNDER: Books, Film, Fun Stuff
TAGS: Animals, Fantasy, Game of Thrones, Harry Potter, Lord of the rings

Books, Film, Fun Stuff

Our favourite fantasies would be nothing without their animals

By Amy Davies

I’ve been thinking about it, and in the three big fantasy dramatisations of the decade, we definitely cared so much more about what the mythical creatures were doing than their boring human counterparts. So, let’s hear it for the animals of fantasy!
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POSTED ON: February 12, 2015
FILED UNDER: Fun Stuff
TAGS: Animals

Fun Stuff

Llamaday

By Anne Perry

On Thursdays we post llamas. (And alpacas.) Yay!

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POSTED ON: February 11, 2015
FILED UNDER: Books, Film, Television
TAGS: Animals, Love stories, Valentine's Day

Books, Film, Television

Our favourite unconventional love stories

By The Hodderscape Team

Love isn’t just about chocolate shaped confectionery and strolls along the beach, sometimes it’s about robots, unicorns, serial killer and vampires too. Here a few of our favourite unconventional love stories from comics, books and films.
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POSTED ON: January 29, 2015
FILED UNDER: Craft Corner
TAGS: Animals, Lego, Pickwick

Craft Corner

Dodo crafts to hatch at home

By Fleur Clarke

Dodo crafts? What a fantastic idea, I hear you cry. As many of you are probably aware, our logo is inspired by Pickwick the delightfully domesticated dodo from Jasper Fforde’s Thursday Next series. It was created by the wonderful Sarah Anne Langton. If you’d like to try your hand at cloning a dodo of your very own, here are a few dodo crafts. Get cloning!
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POSTED ON: January 14, 2015
FILED UNDER: Craft Corner
TAGS: Animals

Craft Corner

How to make a raven card!

By Fleur Clarke

Some people say we don’t send enough letters nowadays. Well, we at Hodderscape would like to go one step further: people don’t send enough letters by raven.

What could be more classy than a handwritten note delivered by everyone’s favourite harbinger of doom? This craft also has a few advantages over traditional raven mail: it will neither poop on your recipient, nor peck their eyes out. It’s also ridiculously easy.
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POSTED ON: September 12, 2014
FILED UNDER: Friday Favourites
TAGS: Animals, Werewolves

Friday Favourites

Friday Favourites: Beasts

By The Hodderscape Team

This week Cecilia Ekbäck popped onto the blog to tell us a bit about the origins of her upcoming novel Wolf Winter. We all agreed that wolves are pretty ferocious, but are they the baddest beasts in town? Team Hodderscape decided to pick out some of their favourite beasts.
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POSTED ON: August 8, 2014
FILED UNDER: Books, Film, Friday Favourites, Television
TAGS: Animals, The Cheshire Cat

Books, Film, Friday Favourites, Television

Friday Favourites: Talking Animals

By The Hodderscape Team

Animals are cute, talking animals are even cuter. Here are our favourites…
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POSTED ON: July 18, 2014
FILED UNDER: Hodderscoop
TAGS: Animals, Cute

Hodderscoop

Hodderscoop: 18 July 2014

By Anne Perry

Float like a butterfly, plock like a dodo.
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POSTED ON: June 30, 2014
FILED UNDER: Fun Stuff
TAGS: Animals, Cute, Game of Thrones

Fun Stuff

The Best Animal Cosplays

By Fleur Clarke

A cosplay beastiary
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