Enormous Talking Cockroaches are a mythical creature mentioned in The Menagerie trilogy.
Description[]
Enormous talking cockroaches are assumedly large cockroaches capable of speech.
History[]
Krakens and Lies[]
Matthew Kahn mentions that he voted for Ruby Kahn to go to the Tanzania Menagerie's Giant Mythical Insect Research team, feeding enormous talking cockroaches[1] as her punishment for not dosing Johnathan Sterling with kraken ink.[2] However, Ruby ended up being enrolled in an OOPSS course.[3]
Known Enormous Talking Cockroaches[]
- Multiple enormous talking cockroaches at the Tanzania Menagerie[4]
Trivia[]
- Enormous talking cockroaches are one of the only creatures not described in Camp Underpaw's Guide to Mythical Creatures, along with barangs, bunyips, deflectors, elves, grindylows, monster spiders, scarabs, tooth faeries, vampires, wampus cats, werecreatures (besides werewolves) and will-o'-the-wisps.
Sources[]
Sutherland, Tui T, and Kari Sutherland. The Menagerie. HarperCollins Children's Books, 2013
Sutherland, Tui T, and Kari Sutherland. Dragon on Trial. HarperCollins Children's Books, 2014
Sutherland, Tui T, and Kari Sutherland. Krakens and Lies. HarperCollins Children's Books, 2015