Encyclopedia Prehistorica Dinosaurs: The Definitive Pop-Up

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After all, if prehistoric coelacanths and crocodiles are still around, what else might be lurking in today’s largely unexplored oceans? From renowned pop-up masters Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart comes an awe-inspiring tribute to the world's most beloved extinct animals and their 180-million-year reign on our planet. This is a book I would give to a child who appreciates a great pop-up book and knows how to take care of it. There is a wonderful Teacher's Guide that can be downloaded for this book as well as an activity sheet for making a simple pop-up T-Rex.

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Our principal bought one for each 3rd-6th grade homeroom the year it was nominated for the Texas Bluebonnet Award! The Times * One of two children's books featured in a 'guide for clued-up giving': An amazing, authoritative compendium crammed with new info on dinosaurs. I was a huge dinosaur nerd as a child, and wanted to be a paleontologist, so it was nice to get refreshers on so many fun facts.The book has 12 main pages of colorful and elaborate pop-ups, and each main page of pop-ups has multiple smaller pop-ups on the page as well. While dinosaurs patrolled the lands, massive prehistoric sharks, giant scorpions, and colossal squid cruised the ancient oceans – most with just one thing in mind: eat or be eaten. As a mother of three boys, I've accepted that dinosaurs are an inevitable stage of their development, but I hate everything about them (the dinosaurs, not boys).

Encyclopedia Prehistorica, The Definitive Pop-Up Dinosaurs: Encyclopedia Prehistorica, The Definitive Pop-Up

It would be a great book to give to students in 3rd through 6th grade who show an interest in dinosaurs, as it provides small, easy-to-read blurbs of information in addition to its images.

We both loved it and appreciated the artfulness of it immensely, and though the vocabulary and dinosaur names occasionally proved a challenge, the beauty of this book pulled us through.

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It is important for adults to help children expand their knowledge and learn of all the possibilities life could hold for them.he has gone on to make amazingly inventive pop-ups, including the marvellous Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Dinosaurs is a wonderful informational text full of colorful pop-ups that are sure to delight students of all ages. The article, “Childhood”, mentions that children do not know anything about the world until it is taught to them. In this third and final volume of the best-selling Encyclopedia Prehistorica series, 3-D masters Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart tackle the titans of the ancient world, awing us with a humbling close-up look at some startling mega-beasts that preceded us on planet Earth.