Animalsaurus: Incredible Creatures from Prehistoric and Modern Times

by Tracey Turner (Author) Harriet Russell (Illustrator)

Animalsaurus: Incredible Creatures from Prehistoric and Modern Times
Reading Level: 4th − 5th Grade
Long ago, all sorts of magnificent animals walked, swam, and hunted across the Earth: sharks of enormous lengths, vehicle-sized armadillos, gigantic horned mammals, and many, many more. In this gorgeous guide to fascinating beasts of the prehistoric era, these creatures are compared with their closest modern relatives, or other living animals with amazing features. Packed with beautiful pictures, fascinating facts, essential stats, and scale diagrams, this paper-over-board package is a lush and comprehensive overview of prehistoric beasts.
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Publishers Weekly

More than 30 prehistoric animals are the focus of this irreverent outing, which compares them to living descendants. Working in scribbly ink, Russell renders such prehistoric animals as the giant pacarana (a cow-size rodent similar to the capybara) and woolly mammoth in caricatured cartoons, placed alongside photographs of their modern counterparts. Turner doesn't sugarcoat some of the prehistoric beasts' appearances: "It looked like a cross between an especially unattractive lizard and a pig," she says of the Lystrosaurus, whose burrowing habits are similar to those of the spiny-tailed lizard. If readers ever doubted that monsters are real, they need only look to the fossil record--or the backyard. Ages 8-12. (Oct.)

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Classification
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9781681195445
Lexile Measure
-
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Bloomsbury U.S.A. Children's Books
Publication date
October 20, 2017
Series
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BISAC categories
JNF003050 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Animals | Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures
JNF051150 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | Zoology
JNF025150 - Juvenile Nonfiction | History | Prehistoric
Library of Congress categories
Prehistoric animals
Extinct animals
Animals, Fossil

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