From two renowned pop-up masters comes an awe-inspiring tribute to the world's most beloved, extinct animals and their 180-million-year reign on Earth--brought to life in 35 thrilling 3-D pop-ups. Full color.
With extremely well-preserved bits of DNA from dinosaurs, a scientist plans to create a theme park of cloned dinosaurs. When the island that houses the theme park suffers a power outage, the dinosaurs run rampant, and the humans must run for their lives. This novel was the basis for the 1993 film of the same name.
More than 300 full-color photos and 90 carefully researched paintings highlight this fascinating, all-new look at dinosaurs. Includes the latest facts, field findings and theories as it reconstructs life in prehistoric times. Young Adult.
In this companion volume to the bestselling "Encyclopedia Prehistorica: Dinosaurs," pop-up masters Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart explore the prehistoric underwater world, where monsters like megalodon ruled the waves. Full of captivating facts and more than 35 fascinating pop-ups, this incredible volume is sure to astonish and amaze everyone ...
From the first sea mammals to fierce dinosaurs, this inspiring reference book takes young children on a fascinating journey into the prehistoric world. Includes quiz bars on every page to make learning fun. Full color.
The long-awaited, eagerly anticipated sequel to Dinotopia, the award-winning book about the extraordinary land where dinosaurs and humans live in peaceful interdependence, begins a thrilling, new chapter of high adventure. The mysterious depths of the island present an irresistible lure to Arthur Denison, who organizes an expedition into "The ...
How did the dinosaurs, the biggest, most powerful animals that ever walked the earth, die? Sixty-five million years ago, a giant asteroid slammed into Earth, with devastating effects. Paleontologist Charlotte Lewis Brown and artist Phil Wilson recreate what may have happened to the dinosaurs. Full color.
The story of how a dinosaur and a boy named Danny become friends and spend a wonderful day together watching a baseball game, eating ice cream and playing hide and seek.
They stoke the boiler, stow the luggage, and when hills are steep, they even get out and push. The thrill-seeking daredevil dinosaurs from "Dinosailors" are back, and now they're riding a train. Full color.
Where can you find a Deinosuchus that practically pirouettes on its tail and a T-Rex that bounds gracefully through the air? Between the pages of Tony Mitton's Dinosaurumpus, where dinosaurs run, boom, shake, and shudder their way to the "sludgy old swamp" and rock the night away. Mitton's delightful rhyme and Parker-Rees's whimsical illustrations ...
An illustrated guide to 112 beasts dating from the Cambrian Period to the Pleistocene Epoch, with profiles on physical characteristics, lifestyle, habitat, behavior and distribution across prehistoric earth. A companion to a new Discovery Channel series.
A world-renowned paleontologist teams up with a "New York Times" science writer to reveal a new science that trumps science fiction: how humans can re-create a dinosaur.
Paleontologist/author Robert Bakker is acknowledged as a rebel in his field, thought by many to have been the model for the paleontologist character in the novel and the movie Jurassic Park. This astonishing novel of love, loyalty, family, and survival tells the compelling story of a year in the life of one of a female Utahraptor, told entirely ...
"Dinosaurs: The Textbook" is a monument to our present understanding of these wonderful creatures. It is a book that will take the student on a journey through nearly every aspect of dinosaur biology, geology, and the history of their discovery. It is a text that presents facts together with current ideas, notions, and controversies. Dr. Lucas ...
Everyones favorite dinosaurs are back--and this time theyre going to school. These prehistoric pupils are in a class of their own. As in their previous books, Yolen and Teague capture childrens rambunctious natures with playful read-aloud verse and wonderfully amusing pictures. Full color.
In this third and final volume of the bestselling Encyclopedia Prehistorica series, 3-D masters Sabuda and Reinhart tackle the titans of the ancient world, awing readers with a humbling close-up look at some startling mega-beasts that are now extinct.
A classic lost world of high adventure and discovery, philosophy and humor, Dinotopia is more than a book--it's a state of mind: a world where humans and an ancient race of dinosaurs have lived for centuries in amicable interdependence. This world is discovered by a scientist and his young son, who find themselves shipwrecked in this strange and ...
In the late 1800s, a newspaper reporter attempts to impress his lady friend by joining an expedition led by Professor Challenger, which takes him along the Amazon in a search for a hidden valley populated by still-living dinosaurs. Unrelated to the Michael Crichton novel and film of the same name (which, incidentally, are named in homage to this ...
For over a century, dinosaurs have been thought of as plodding, dim-witted giant lizards too awkward and ill-equipped to survive the ravages of environmental change. Bakker offers startling new evidence destined to forever alter the perception of the much-maligned monsters, depicting them as never before imagined: hot-blooded, amazingly agile, and ...
Here is an enticing collection of dinosaurs sure to excite any child. Packed with full-color photographs of life-like models plus detailed illustrations, the book offers simple text describing interesting features. Questions encourage children to compare various dinosaurs.
Just when a little boy thinks hes going to die of boredom from running errands with his mom, the most remarkable thing happens. Caldecott Medalist Small teams up with newcomer Broach to explore the age-old battle of wills in this clever book. Full color.
Thursday night at bedtime, Jesse climbs out his bedroom window and hops on board a mysterious dinosaur-filled train that steams into his backyard. This exuberant story and the bold illustrations will stir the imagination of any child who loves trains or dinosaurs--or both. Full-color illustrations.
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