Plesiosaur Peril (Hardcover)

In the Tales of Prehistoric Life series, award-winning author and illustrator Daniel Loxton uses stunningly realistic, state-of-the-art, computer-generated images to vividly re-create the undersea world of the Jurassic period. Featured here are creatures called plesiosaurs, marine reptiles distantly related to land-based dinosaurs. We follow the tale of a baby Cryptoclidus, a type of plesiosaur, whose curiosity about her new world in the ocean leads her to wander away from her mother and the rest of her protective pod. As the baby happily explores and plays, she is suddenly confronted by an enormous Liopleurodon, a predatory and much larger plesiosaur. In a highly dramatic scene, the baby, with the help of the rest of her pod, makes a narrow escape from becoming the Liopleurodon's dinner. The exciting adventure story and high-impact digital illustrations, each covering a two-page spread, will captivate children of this age, particularly boys, who are huge fans of prehistoric animals. But the book is also a terrific source of factual scientific information about the lives of plesiosaurs, their ocean habitat, the ocean's other inhabitants and the ways these creatures interacted with each other. As a special bonus, there is an information page describing these plesiosaurs at the back of the book. With its photo-realistic illustrations, this book would make an excellent resource for life science lessons on prehistoric animals and their environments, evolution and how modern scientists use their discoveries to make deductions about the animals of the distant past.

General

Imprint:	Kids Can Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Tales of Prehistoric Life
Release date:	March 2014
First published:	March 2014
Authors:	Daniel Loxton
Illustrators:	Daniel Loxton • Jim W. W. Smith
Dimensions:	286 x 223 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Picture book / Sewn / Cloth over boards
Pages:	32
ISBN-13:	978-1-55453-633-7
Categories:	Books > Children's & Educational > Leisure interests, hobbies & sport > Natural history & pets > Dinosaurs & the prehistoric world Books > Children's Fiction & Fun
LSN:	1-55453-633-2
Barcode:	9781554536337

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