Plesiosaur Peril - Couverture rigide

Loxton, Daniel

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1554536332 ISBN 13 : 9781554536337

Editeur : Kids Can Press, 2014

Synopsis

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 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Daniel Loxton is Editor of Junion Skeptic, the children's section of Skeptic magazine, a quarterly science education and science advocacy magazine published by the nonprofit Skeptics Society. Daniel is the author and illustrator of Evolution. He lives in Victoria, B.C.

Daniel Loxton is Editor of Junion Skeptic, the children's section of Skeptic magazine, a quarterly science education and science advocacy magazine published by the nonprofit Skeptics Society. Daniel is the author and illustrator of Evolution. He lives in Victoria, B.C.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kids Can Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1554536332
• ISBN 13: 9781554536337
• Reliure: Relié
• Illustrateur: Loxton Daniel, Smith Jim W.W.
• Nombre de pages: 32
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible