Sourcebook and bioThis is a collection of two books previously authored by Jay Ansill: Origami Monsters and Mythical Beings and Practical and Decorative Origami. There are a few slight changes from the original books, though, as the new edition adds a couple of models by Michael LaFosse and omits a parrot by Ligia Montoya.
There are some excellent models included here, with the mythical-beings part containing the more challenging projects. However, the book's weakness lies in the fact that the diagrams are not the clearest, and some of the photographs in the mythical-beings part are quite bad - they even managed to mess up a photo of Neal's dragon...