Overview
This encyclopedia of dinosaurs has been created especially to allow young children to discover the lush natural world in which different species of dinosaurs evolved. The beautiful illustrations provide a detailed guide for readers to observe and identify the many different kinds of dinosaurs and giant sea and flying reptiles. The archeology of fossil finds and of painstaking reconstruction of skeletons is vividly portrayed.
Full Product Details
Author: Claude Delafosse ,
Donald Grant ,
Henri Galeron ,
Ute Fuhr
Publisher: Moonlight Publishing Ltd
Imprint: Moonlight Publishing Ltd
Dimensions:
Width: 18.70cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 22.50cm
Weight: 0.638kg
ISBN: 9781851034246
ISBN 10: 1851034242
Pages: 78
Publication Date: 05 September 2013
Recommended Age: From 4 to 7 years
Audience:
Children/juvenile
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Children's (6-12)
Format: Spiral bound
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Author Information
"Donald Grant was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1954. After studying Fine Arts at the Pratt Institute, in the U.S. which he financed by working as a taxi driver, he then worked as a barman and musician. His learnt most from his travels, spending 6 years travelling the globe, perhaps to learn and think about the world before choosing drawing as his medium for expression. This passion for travelling led him to France, where he settled and has now lived for the last 20 years. He has illustrated numerous children's books in genres ranging from non-fiction, detective stories, and other types of fiction. He is also a children's story writer."" James Prunier is the illustrator of Dinosaurs, Trees, Trains and Elephants in the My First Discovery series. He was born in 1959 in Oran, Algeria. His father’s job as a pilot meant grew up overlooking Lake Constance in Germany, looking out onto the Atlantic in the Landes in France, and then finally in Provence, also in France. As an adolescent, he is marked by the discovery of the industrial landscape of Lorraine, in which he identifies a type of poetry He goes to the Epinal Art School and then to study Fine Arts at Nancy. After winning an art competition organised by the Centre for Cultural Action at Angoulême in 1981, Paris beckons. In 1982 he publishes his first illustrated book with Gallimard which offers him the chance to be more widely known. A decade later, he is named the “Official painter of the skies”, after the publication of his History of Aviation series. In 2000, The French mail service commissions him to carry out “Aerial adventures”, a work inspired by the four stamps that he designed between 1997 and 2000, based on around the theme of the airmail service."
