This exciting and generously sized full-color reference examines these terrifying, fascinating creatures with a winning combination of informative, entertaining text and dramatically detailed art. Full-color illustrations.

AGES: 4 plus AUTHOR: Francesca Cosanti, attended the Multimedia Illustration and Animation Course at Istituto Europeo di Design in Rome and an illustration course at Officina b5 - Accademy of illustration in Rome and some intensive illustration courses with international famous illustrators. She works as an illustrator for publishing and advertising, for associations, companies and agencies since 2005. At the same time she teaches in various schools as an expert of illustration, techniques, graphic design and multimedia softwares. For White Star she has illustrated the books "Little Red Riding Hood" and "Hansel and Gretel". Padded HB

A fun, fact-filled introduction to dinosaurs with thirty flaps, a wheel to turn, and a giant fold-out page. First Facts and Flaps: Giant Dinosaurs features popular dinosaurs such as tyrannosaurus rex, stegosaurus, and diplodocus. Find out how much meat t-rex ate in one sitting, why stegosaurus had plates on its back, how diplodocus used its tail, and much, much more!Pairing bold, colourful scenes with rhyming text, and a page full of further information, this is the perfect book for children just starting to find out more about the world around them.With amazing and funny facts (all checked by a subject-specific consultant), bright infographics, and a mixture of novelties, including thirty flaps, First Facts and Flaps: Giant Dinosaurs is accessible, visual, and loads of fun!

"Created for St. Martin's Press by Priddy Bicknell"--P. [4] of cover.

To this day, dinosaurs remain a never-ending source of fascination to children, who just can't get enough of these compelling creatures. Illustrations, picturing over 60 dinosaur types (including some new discoveries that appear here for the first time in a children's book), maps, and a guide to each individual species--plus an overall introduction to fossils--tell youngsters how and why all the dinosaurs developed as they did. Answer exactly the types of question kids want to know: How big were they? What did they eat? Where did they live? What do their names mean? This lively trip back to the Age of the Dinosaurs, from its beginnings in the Triassic period to the great extinction at the end of the Cretaceous, is guided by one of the major authorities in the field, Dr. Thomas Holtz, vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Maryland, whose specialty is the study of carnivorous dinosaurs.

Renowned paleontologist Robert T. Bakker and award-winning paleoartist Luis V. Rey combine forces in this oversized picture book about the evolution of dinosaurs. From the conquest of land by dino ancestor Acanthostega during the Devonian Period, through the mass die-off of dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous Period, Bakker and Rey take readers on a safari through time while paying subtle homage to the 1960 Giant Golden Book Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Reptiles that inspired them both as young dinophiles. With stops along the way to look at monster bugs, ferocious fin-backs, fluffy dinosaurs, sea monsters and the 12-year-old girl who discovered them, dinosaur orchestras, tickling tyrannosaurs, and much, much more, this is a journey readers will never forget. It's a perfect gift for young dinosaur lovers as well as adult fans of Dr. Bakker and Luis Rey!"

Via colorful illustrations, introduces the names and basic characteristics of 43 different dinosaurs.

Provides pictures and brief facts about a variety of different kinds of dinosaurs.

Open the flaps and see dinosaurs leap off the page Enter the land of the giants, with this stunning collection of the biggest, most frightening dinosaurs that ever stalked the Earth. A positively Jurassic introduction to dinosaurs and their world - see Tyrannosaurus striding through the rainforest, Corythosaurus reaching up to feed from tree tops, and Suchomimus wading through swamp lands. Turn to the fun and colourful fact pages to find out lots of fascinating dino snippets - which animal did Pentaceratops most resemble, what did Corythosaurus sound like, did Tyrannosaurus have any enemies, and lots, lots more!