Penguin Random House South Africa

Categories: Children, Children 9-12 Years, Children's Non-Fiction, International Non-Fiction
ISBN: 9780241471890
Published: September 2021
Imprint: Ladybird
Page Extent: 48
Format: Hardback
RRP 380.00

Adventurer’s Guide to Dinosaurs

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About the book

Travel through time to the land of the dinosaurs! Foreword by Chris Packham.

Climb aboard the time machine and join adventurer Mia on a breathtaking journey to our prehistoric world, visiting an active volcano, tracking dinosaur footprints and tiptoeing around a Maiasaura nest!

Starting almost 300 million years ago, you can meet:

- ancient Permian reptiles
- Triassic meat-eaters and plant-eaters
- powerful Jurassic predators
- fluffy and feathery dinosaurs
- flying dinosaurs and pterosaurs
- the world's very first birds
- enormous Cretaceous titanosaurs
- dinosaurs with horns, frills and crests

With astonishing facts and interactive dinosaur activities, this captivating book will excite and inspire the...

About the Author

Isabel Thomas

Isabel Thomas

Isabel Thomas has written more than 150 books about science for young readers and has been shortlisted for the Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize, the Association of Science Education Book of the Year, the English 4-11 Picture Book Awards and the Blue Peter Book Awards.Aurélie Guillerey studied at the Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Strasbourg and now works as an illustrator in France. Her characters are often inspired by her children and she likes to work with bright, bold colours to create energetic illustration.

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Yas Imamura

Yas Imamura

Yas Imamura is an illustrator based in Portland, Oregon. Much of her work draws inspiration from the books she enjoyed as a child, her art evolving into an amalgamation of both the timeless and modern. Yas's preferred materials are gouache and watercolour.

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Chris Packham

Chris Packham

TV presenter, photographer and conservationist Chris Packham is one of the nation’s favourite naturalists. He is best known for the BAFTA-winning The Really Wild Show and fronting BBC’s Springwatch and Autumnwatch. Packham is president of the Hawk Conservancy Trust, the Hampshire Ornithological Society and the Bat Conservation Trust and vice-president of the RSPB and the Butterfly Conservation. In 2011, he was awarded the British Trust for Ornithology’s Dilys Breese Medal for his ‘outstanding work in promoting science to new audiences’, and in 2016 he won the Wildscreen Panda Award for Outstanding Achievement, for his contribution to wildlife filmmaking.Packham’s partner Charlotte Corney owns the Isle of Wight Zoo, and his step-daughter is studying zoology at Liverpool University. He lives in the New Forest.

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