A Day at the Dinosaur Museum by Tom Adams

A Day at the Dinosaur Museum by Tom Adams

Step through the doors of this mysterious museum... and discover everything you wanted to know about dinosaurs! Open drawers, peek inside cabinets and explore behind the scenes with this fantastically interactive museum-inside-a-book. Each page has a door that leads to the next room... but what will you find there?

Pop-up dinosaurs, both fossilized and fully fleshed out, join Mesozoic contemporaries in a series of museum displaysThe single-topic spreads are up-to-date but designed to evoke the dusty atmosphere of old-style dinosaur halls (emphasizing this conceit, some are even labeled "Rooms"). They combine cramped blocks of information in smallish type with images of beasts and bones done in a style that resembles the faded naturalism of early-20th-century museum murals-or, in the "Fossil Room," a desktop covered in paleontological notes with paper clips and coffee stains. Occasional inset spinners and attached booklets supply additional dino details. A tab-activated flipbook attempts to demonstrate tectonic drift, but readers have to go fairly slowly to assimilate it all, which blunts the effect. Amid pale silhouettes representing modern museum visitors, the prehistoric creatures, nearly all of which are small and drably colored, rear up individually or parade along in sedate, motley groups until a closing display and mention of genetic engineering promise a possible future with pet velociraptors. It's got a few quirky bits, but it's lackluster overall. * Kirkus Reviews *

Tom Adams is a TV producer specialising in science and history documentaries. He is a member of the Association of British Science Writers, and his first children's book, Feel the Force!, won a prestigious Parents' Choice Gold Award. Josh Lewis is an illustrator from the Cotswolds, who graduated in 2015 with a First Class degree in Illustration from The University for the Creative Arts. Josh grew up in the countryside and has always had a love of nature, which he tries to bring through in his work.

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ISBN 13	9781783704422
ISBN 10	178370442X
Title	A Day at the Dinosaur Museum
Author	Tom Adams
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Templar Publishing
Year published	2016-10-06
Number of pages	14
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