Join us on the most incredible safari imaginable: a journey back in time through the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous worlds to meet the most amazing creatures ever to have walked the Earth. This book is designed and written for children aged 8 and older. It is packed with more than 100 spectacular, computer-generated images.
Part of the "Dinosaurs" series, this sixth and last title takes us back 65 million years, to the late Cretaceous period, when the age of the dinosaurs was drawing to its close. In this world, whose scenery resembles that of our own, we accompany a great Tyrannosaurus as it patrols its territory.
When the author was contacted about a new dinosaur find, he found that it belonged to an elite group of fossils. This was a dinosaur mummy! Drawing upon the techniques developed by the dinosaur mummy team, this work takes you on a chronological tour of the handful of dinosaur mummies that have teased the scientific community for 100 years.
Which dinosaur had the biggest brain? Could Tyrannosaurus Rex smell his prey? And, how did dinosaurs kill? From dinosaurs that could see in the dark to pterosaurs that darkened the skies, this title helps enquiring minds come face to face with the biggest, smallest, greediest, brainiest, and most scary animals that ever lived.
Helps you know about the secrets of prehistoric life and the dinosaur specimens. This title lets you find out about the fierce fighting dinosaurs and horned dinosaurs. It also helps you discover how dinosaur hunters build pictures of the lives of these beasts.
Features experts from the world-famous American Museum of Natural History who recreate the world of the dinosaurs as it was over 250 million years ago. Suitable for children aged 9 to 12, this title includes more than 75 hand-drawn illustrations, and ten gatefolds. Each gatefold presents a dinosaur-related subject.
Offers a look at the science and discovery of dinosaurs. This title covers dinosaurs by continent, and includes reconstructions of what dinosaurs and the earth looked like in prehistoric times. It includes information about the feathered dinosaurs, dinosaurs in England, famous dinosaur hunters, and dinosaur reconstructions.
Featuring dinosaur art, this book delivers kids' favourite dinosaurs and introduces them to new ones. It also includes chapters, each of which focuses on a different dinosaur, along with simple text in big type that is suitable for beginning readers or for reading aloud.
Pachyrhinosaurus means 'thick-nose reptile'. This book contains two separate stories. The first is of the discovery of Pachyrhinosaurus fossils at Pipestone Creek in northwestern Alberta. The second is the story of a single Pachyrhinosaurus herd and the events that led to its demise.
Tracing the story of the evolution of life on Earth, this book features over 100 of the largest animals that ever existed. Moving through the dinosaur era, it depicts the landscapes in which they lived and died. It contains scientific evidence on each animal's biology, lifestyle and behaviour, and highlights facts on size, diet and distribution.
Includes coverage that ranges from dinosaurs and birds, and reptiles to early mammals and more. This title lets you find out what they looked like, when and where they lived and what they ate. It helps you to discover the top ten ways of dinosaur defence.
The second of four comic-style books providing an introduction to the beginning of time. Cartoon illustrations accompany the text to retell the story of the Big Bang, evolution, dinosaurs and the beginning of mankind. Events are explained in simple terms with statistics and timelines included.
In the movies, there's Indiana Jones; but in the real world, there was Roy Chapman Andrews. Some say this fearless, larger-than-life adventurer - who, like Indiana, had a wide-brimmed hat, leather jacket and six-shooter - may have been the inspiration for the big-screen hero.
This seminal book brings together every important dinosaur find from the last two centuries and from the world's richest fossil sites. The result is a comprehensive, groundbreaking book that details every kind of prehistoric creature known from the age of
Includes titles which look at a different dinosaur with details of it's features and characteristics and explains how we know so much about them. This series combines the Acorn format of simple text with images to capture the imagination of young readers.
Provides useful companions for enthusiasts, who are keen to discover the various aspects of the natural world. These guides offer full-colour illustrations of around 100-200 different species per title, which have been reproduced from the artwork using the technology.
Features 45 of the largest, most ferocious and most intriguing dinosaurs ever to walk the Earth, from the enormous Supersaurus to favourites such as Stegosaurus, Triceratops and, the notorious Tyrannosaurus Rex. This work includes facts, illustrations and the vital statistics.
Even the brainiest dinosaur detective asks the same question: what would it have been like to see these creatures in the flesh, close up - and alive? This title offers your child a full-on, zoomed-in close encounter with the most amazing dinosaurs ever to walk, stalk, swim, or fly across the prehistoric planet.
Did dinosaurs have any hair? What did a dinosaur's nest look like? How do we know what colour they were? This book answers questions such as these and provides information about the fossilised clues they left behind, and about the experts whose job it is to study them.
Features visual detail, comprehensive entries on hundreds of species, and research that provide the whole picture of the creatures and plants that represent Earth's prehistoric life. This guide helps you explore the rise and fall of successive organisms, devastating extinctions and the knife-edge progress of evolution.
What do we mean by 'prehistoric' creatures? When did they live? What were the scariest prehistoric animals? How do we know about them? This book introduces us to some seriously scary prehistoric creatures, from woolly mammoths to big cats, and explains how our ancestors survived along side these fearsome animals.
Takes you on a journey through the age of the dinosaurs. This interactive book explains how dinosaurs evolved, what they looked like and why they mysteriously disappeared from the planet. It features dinosaur reconstructions and photographs of fossil skeletons that help to provide insights into dinosaur anatomy and behaviour.
Helps readers take a journey through the prehistoric world and trace the evolution of the most astonishing creatures ever to have walked the earth. This book features over 170 giant-sized computer generated illustrations, which provide a visual catalogue of dinosaurs.
With dinosaurs ploding, racing and stomping through the flaps, this book lets you watch a Tyrannosaurus rex tear at the pages, a Diplodocus wield its whip-like tail, and a Triceratops charge at a predator. It also uncovers essential facts about each aspect of the lives of these extinct reptiles, from feeding and nesting to fighting and defence.
Meet Henry, an ordinary boy in an extraordinary house. There's a diplodocus in the basement and fossil footprints in the garden. This work lets readers step inside Henry's House and join Henry, Jaggers the caretaker and a quirky cast of characters as they find out about dinosaurs.
Introduces over 120, 000 years of history to young children. Beginning with the time when dinosaurs ruled the world and ending with the Second World War, this text covers traditional curriculum-based subjects such as the Romans, Tudor England and the Victorians. It is illustrated with a combination of full colour illustrations and photographs.
Dinosaurs is an ever-popular subject with children. This title contains 450 questions covering the most well-known dinosaurs, as well as the more recently discovered species. It features a variety of question types, including multiple choice, true or false and what am I?
Illustrated with the author's colourful, scientifically accurate paintings and cartoons, this title takes readers back to a world sandwiched betwen two major extinctions - the end-Permian and the Triassic. In this period, dinosaurs began to flourish and mammals established their toehold on Earth, promising, despite peril, to survive.
Explores the prehistoric world. This book lets children discover where the dinosaurs came from, how they lived and what happened to them as well as facts including which dinosaurs used their tail like a club and who had a brain the size of a ping-pong ball.
Every double page of this book features an interesting texture to feel, such as bumpy teeth or slippery flippers, as the reader explores the surface of a toy dinosaur. Combined with simple text and illustrations this is intended to help very young children develop sensory and language awareness.
Offers information on a carnivore's menu to the size of the largest dinosaur tooth; intriguing bite-size facts - most dinosaurs walked on their toes and the smallest dinosaurs were about the size of a chicken; real-life stories; 'Big word alert' glossaries; and, artwork and detailed diagrams.
Age of the Dinosaur is a great first book about dinosaurs and the world in which they lived from the Natural History Museum, London. Packed with bite-size facts, exciting prehistoric puzzles and eye-catching photographs of specimens from the Museum's collections, this is a fun and fact-filled introduction to these incredible creatures.
What was the biggest dinosaur? When was the ice age? Why did the dinosaurs die out? Suitable for school projects, this title introduces young readers to the wonder of the prehistoric world. It also features illustrations, photographs of dinosaur models and links to recommended websites.
Uses pop-up illustrations and foldouts to introduce kids to the most ferocious animals that ever swam and walked the Earth. This title includes paper-engineered images of giant sharks, enormous squids, massive marine reptiles, and other creatures from the Late Cretaceous Era, 80 million years ago.
Featuring see-through pages and a CD, this work aims to take you under the skin of the most astonishing creatures the Earth has ever seen, including Allosaurus, the fiercest Jurassic meat eater. It helps you to make dinosaur skeletons run, turn and snap their fearsome jaws on the interactive CD, and see how and where prehistoric animals lived.
Lyuba is a four month old woolly mammoth that was discovered 31, 000 years after her birth, in May 2007. Found lying along a riverside in Siberia, Lyuba is one of the most perfectly preserved mammoth bodies ever recovered. This book traces Lyuba's journey from her emergence out of the permafrost, to her discovery by the indigenous Nenet people.
The third of four comic-style books providing an introduction to the beginning of time. Cartoon illustrations accompany the text to retell the story of the Big Bang, evolution, dinosaurs and the beginning of mankind. Events are explained in simple terms with statistics and timelines included.
The fearsome Tyrannosaurus rex may be one of the most well-known dinosaurs but it's not the most scary! In Top Ten Worst Scary Dinosaurs You Wouldn't Want To Meet, you'll find the Vital Statistics of ten of the most awe-inspiring and truly terrfiying dinosaurs that ever lived.
This book is the first major volume to look at dinosaurs from a historical perspective: from the earliest scrappy finds and best guesses of the early 1800s to the spectacular key discoveries that changed people's minds and brought dinosaurs alive in the public consciousness.
Were dinosaurs lazy? Where did dinosaurs sleep? Where are their ears? This book takes a discovery journey into the exciting subject of dinosaurs, meeting the deadliest, the largest, and the noisiest. It provides the answers to the questions that children ask and wonder about the world around them.
One of a series that looks at prehistoric creatures, explaining what they looked like, how they lived and where they lived. Each book presents the evidence on which the information is based, and a map showing where fossils are found, as well as an introductory spread on extinct creatures.
Explains the findings in dinosaur research and the scientific discoveries that have built up a picture of how dinosaurs looked, what they ate, and how they moved and interacted with each other. Combining many areas of science, such as anatomy, genetics, forensics and engineering design, this book discusses the techniques used to understand them.
Contains a clip art CD that is packed with dinosaur images to download. It also contains a giant wallchart and map perfect for decorating bedroom walls, a model stegosaurus skeleton to build as well as pull-out profiles of 48 of prehistory's most remarkable reptiles.
Lets you take a day trip to the land before time; stroll with a Stegosaurus, trundle with a Tyrannosaurus and dawdle with a Diplodocus. This title also lets you discover the secrets of the dinosaurs, find out about long-extinct plant-life and other aspects of the prehistoric world.
The fearsome Tyrannosaurus rex may be one of the most well-known dinosaurs but it's not the most scary! In Top Ten Worst Scary Dinosaurs You Wouldn't Want To Meet, you'll find the Vital Statistics of ten of the most awe-inspiring and truly terrfiying dinosaurs that ever lived.
Suitable for KS3 History, this is a home reference, practice and revision book useful for any child studying History in the first few years of Secondary school. It includes study notes on the key dates and events outlined in the government's Scheme of Work, plus source-based questions to develop the key skills needed to do well in History.
Part of "Dinosaurs" series, this title contains a story that takes place in the late Triassic period, 210 million years ago, in the northern part of the supercontinent Pangaea. It features the dangerous trek of a plateosaurus, a large herbivore and her hatchlings in search of food.
A guide that contains facts and offers information about dinosaurs. It helps discover how ancient fossils and footprints reveal their awesome world. It includes a clip-art CD with over 100 amazing images to download, and a pull-out wallchart to decorate your room. It is suitable for projects or just for fun.
Stegosaurus is one of the top five dinosaurs in terms of its popularity with children. This book attempts to establish exactly what those plates on its back were for. It offers information on how Stegasaurus lived, including: how it defended itself, why it was a picky eater, and why scientists thought it had two brains.
A reference to 355 dinosaurs from the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, including more than 900 illustrations, maps, timelines and photographs. It features such key groups as: sauropods, theropods, ornithopods, ankylosaurs, stegosaurs, carnosaurs, polacanthids, diplodocids, iguanodonts, boneheads, and many more.
A first reference series for children of six and above: those who are just starting to read alone and more confident readers who are beginning to exercise wider reading and cross-referencing skills. It features an interactive element - coloured 'journey link' buttons - that allow readers to choose their own path through the book.
Suitable for projects or just for fun, this title enables your child to learn what they need to know about dinosaurs. It features a giant wallchart, interactive clip-art CD and dedicated website. It helps your child discover all about dinosaurs, the creatures who have been dead for millions of years but we still want to know all about today.
An introduction to the facts about dinosaurs, including a look at some possible reasons for their extinction. The "x-ray" style format of some of the pages enables readers to see how scientists believe the internal skeletal system of dinosaurs corresponded to their external appearance.
Lets the reader travel back through time and learn about the creatures large and small that inhabited the Earth long before recorded history began. This book lets them find out about the diversity of dinosaur life and habitats and see how dinosaurs evolved over the course of millions of years.
Part of the "Dinosaurs" series, this fifth title shows what life was like for Argentinosaurus, the largest animal that ever existed. It takes you on a journey across the plains of prehistoric South America with a group of these outsized herbivores, as they encounter the strange armored sauropod Saltasaurus and the primitive bird Patagopteryx.
Left by animals long ago, some durable doo-doo has survived the long journey through the ages. It started out stinky, but now it's frozen, dried or turned to rock. This irresistible book looks at how it's helping scientists to piece together the puzzle of ancient life.
Helps children create their own picture book as they find out about prehistoric times. This activity book includes an eight-page booklet that enables children to read the captions and use the labels beside each sticker to choose the image that best fits in the space available.
A guide to creatures from the Mesozoic era. It takes you on a journey detailing discoveries, traits and habitats of the world's top ten dinosaurs - Plateosaurus, Diplodocus, Compsognathus, Stegosaurus, Iguanodon, Tyrannosaurus, Ankylosaurus, Velociraptor, Triceratops and Baryonyx - and two prehistoric animals - Plesiosaurus and Pteranodon.
Includes titles which look at a different dinosaur with details of it's features and characteristics and explains how we know so much about them. This series combines the Acorn format of simple text with images to capture the imagination of young readers.
Ranging from the wooly mammoth's mighty tusks to the huge fangs of the sabre-toothed big cat, this title describes how we know about the existence of prehistoric animals and discusses what happened to them. It looks at how they fed, what they ate and how they survived.
From the wooly mammoth's mighty tusks to the huge fangs of the sabre-toothed big cat, this title presents different creatures. It describes how we know about the existence of prehistoric animals and discusses what happened to them. It looks at how they fed, what they ate and how they survived.
Graphic Dinosaurs: Giganotosaurus takes the form of a comic, telling stories of the perilous lives of these giant lizards with vivid, full-colour illustrations. From the 'meat-eating bull' to the 'Patagonian Claw', this title includes a scientific description and comparison of the creatures featured in this title.
Journeys around the world, delving through layers of fossil evidence to uncover the secrets of prehistoric life. This title takes you into a prehistoric landscape and unearths some of the most awesome dinosaur specimens yet discovered. It also features fierce fighting dinosaurs and horned dinosaurs.
Tells the story of our discovery of dinosaurs, from the eighteenth-century interest in sea dragons to present day work with DNA, through the men and women who dedicated their lives to furthering our knowledge. Through the inclusion of 15 facsimile documents, rare photographs and maps, this title lets you travel the world and the centuries.
Dinosaurs fascinate young children. This book features a colourful catalogue of these mysterious creatures from the past. It lets children spot all the different dinosaurs - from the fierce meat-eating Tyrannosaurus and the long-necked plant-eating Diplodocus to the heavily armoured Stegosaurus and the city Compsognathus.
Featuring more than 600 questions about dinosaurs such as: 'What dinosaurs are thought to have evolved into birds? Did dinosaurs travel in herds? And where and what is the Dinosaur Freeway?', this fact-book provides information on the lives and habits of these astonishing creatures.
Part of the series of books, this title contains over 100 full-colour stickers for children to match to the illustrations. It includes descriptions that allow children to seek out and identify specific objects. Space is allocated to each illustration so that children can fill in details of when and where each object was spotted.
Smart Cards are books for smart kids who want to know even more. Each book, crammed with facts, features and fun, comes with its own "Smart Card" - a cool, sculpted CD which will work with nearly all PCs and Macs to provide tons of extra information, games and entertainment. Ages 7+.
Presents the dinosaurs of the Cretaceous period that provides a 3-D view of more than a dozen prehistoric creatures. This title contains illustrations that include the stars of the dinosaur world, including the three-horned Triceratops and the huge carnivore Tyrannosaurus Rex, as well as the Styracosaurus, or spiked lizard.
The T. Rex was strong, with teeth sharp as knives. When most dinos saw him, they ran for their lives! And so Dr. Seuss' Cat in the Hat introduces young readers to the fiercest of all the many extinct reptiles featured in this exciting exploration of the Age of Dinosaurs.
Its neck was long, its tail was longer and its body was really huge too. But Diplodocus... didn't have a very big head, didn't have very strong teeth, and it wouldn't hurt a fly. This book helps you know about Diplodocus. It is suitable for 5-7 year olds as well as for the greatest dinosaur enthusiasts.
Takes young children on an informative journey into prehistoric times. Beginning with a little boy wondering what real dinosaurs were like, this title transports readers into the prehistoric age, following a loveable stegosaurus, as he hatches from his egg and grows up, encountering a fearsome predator and then some gentle giants of the Jurassic.
The books in this series use cartoon style illustrations and lively narrative text to make key topics in science and geography both accessible and engaging. This approach encourages children to read about and understand even complex ideas. Each book contains an experiment, useful websites and an index.
Graphic Dinosaurs: Stegosaurus takes the form of a comic, telling stories of the perilous lives of these armoured beasts with vivid, full-colour illustrations. From the 'Bird Robber' to the 'Horned Lizard', this title includes a scientific description and comparison of the creatures.
Illustrated with artwork, this book contains need-to-know facts about dinosaurs. It helps you learn about dinosaur habits such as feeding, packs, battles and behaviour. It provides important details for the most common dinosaurs of different periods. It features factfiles for various dinosaurs, including pronunciation, weight, length and diet.
Millions of years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, you had to be extreme to survive. That's why these incredible creatures racked up so many awesome records. This book is packed with astounding facts and statistics about dinosaur record breakers. It lets you discover the fastest, the biggest and the deadliest dinosaurs.