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An Adventurer's Guide to Dinosaurs

An Adventurer's Guide to Dinosaurs

Summary

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 adventurers of the future.

About the authors

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.
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Yas Imamura (Illustrator)

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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