*Wondrous item, common (cost 100 gp)* **Crafting Components:** The first cloth used to swaddle a newborn This simple yet surprisingly comprehensive picture book contains an entry for seemingly every monster known to the general populace, along with a child-friendly illustration. You may use the picture book to automatically succeed on a DC 10 Intelligence check to recall general information about a monster. The book reflects the cultural prejudices of its creator, and as such may or may not consider a given creature to be monstrous. Ultimately, which creatures the book contains entries about is at the discretion of the Narrator. You may use an action to cast *[minor illusion](https://a5e.tabletopbytheik.nl/compendium/spells/minor_illusion)* with a spell save DC of 13 from the book, but you may only use it to imitate a generic, non-semantic sound associated with one of the monsters in the book, such as the giggling of pixies, the moaning of a ghost, or the roar of a dragon. If the monster’s sound is associated with a mechanical effect, such as the murmurs of a gibbering mouther, it does not have that effect.