Synopses & Reviews
With their sharp teeth, massive size, and otherworldly shapes, dinosaurs are an endlessly fascinating topic for children. BY starting with children's most common questions, this book's accessible approach lets them uncover all kinds of extraordinary facts about favorite topics like feeding and nesting, fighting, defense, and adaptation. In Flip The Flaps: Dinosaurs by Judy Allen with illustrations by Tudor Humphries, readers can watch a T-Rex tear at the pages, a Diplodocus move its whip-like tail, and a Triceratops charge at a predator. Roaaarrr!
Synopsis
Flip the flaps to find answers about favorite prehistoric reptiles. Watch a Diplodocus ward off a predator with its tail. Observe the preservation of a dinosaur fossil. Dinosaurs of all shapes and sizes stomp and pounce their way through the pages of this fact-filled book as scene changes provide a glimpse of the world millions of years ago. Flip The Flaps: Dinosaurs is a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
About the Author
Judy Allen is an award-winning author who has written more than forty-five books for children. Her novel Awaiting Developments won the U.K. Whitbread Children's Novel Award, the U.K. Friends of the Earth Award, and was nominated for the U.K. Carnegie Medal. Tudor Humphries Tudor Humphries is a renowned children's book illustrator, landscape painter, wildlife artist, photographer, sculptor and teacher. He recently illustrated a new edition of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe for HarperCollins.