The Loch Ness Monster (Cartoon Version)

The cartoon-like figure in the photo is supposed to be the monster at Loch Ness, a famous lake in Scotland. It looks very much like a dragon or prehistoric dinosaur that lives in that lake. It was my daughter who bought it to me when she was travelling in Britain. I remember there was a comprehension passage about Loch Ness monster in Form One English text books which our CCSC students were using.

The following materials come from Wikipedia and I have modified them a bit:

The Loch Ness Monster (尼斯水怪) is believed to inhabit in Loch Ness 尼斯湖 (“Loch” means "Lake") in the Scottish Highlands. The creature is most frequently described as“ a line of long-surviving plesiosaurs”. It is similar to other supposed lake monsters in Scotland and elsewhere.

It was first brought to the world's attention in 1933. Evidence of its existence came from much-disputed photographic material and sonar readings. The scientific community regards the Loch Ness Monster as a modern-day myth. People called this legendary monster by the nickname Nessie since the 1950s.

On 2 May 1933, Alex Campbell, the water bailiff for Loch Ness and a part-time journalist, reported seeing the "monster" in the Inverness Courier. On 4 August in the same year, the Courier published as a full news item the claim of a London man, George Spicer, that a few weeks earlier while motoring around the Loch, he and his wife had seen "the nearest approach to a dragon or pre-historic animal that I have ever seen in my life", moving awkwardly across the road toward the Loch carrying "an animal" in its mouth. There were other claims of land or water sightings. These stories soon reached the national press, which talked of a "monster fish", "sea serpent", or "dragon", eventually giving it the name, "Loch Ness Monster". On 6 December 1933 the first photograph of the monster, taken by Hugh Gray, was published. Shortly afterwards, the Secretary of State for Scotland ordered the police to prevent any attacks on it. In 1934, interest was aroused by The Surgeon's Photograph. In the same year R. T. Gould published a book of personal investigation and collected record of additional reports pre-dating the summer of 1933. Other authors have claimed that sightings of the monster go as far back as the 6th century.