The Truth About Dinosaurs by Guido Genechten
A funny guided tour throughout the world of dinosaurs. For curious people from 4 up to 250 million years old.
Chickens are descended from dinosaurs, and here's a chicken with a family photo album to prove itFirst the chuffed chicken-or Gallus gallus domesticus to a skeptical unseen narrator-opens the album to snapshots of The Velociraptor Family to point out similar feet and feathers, then goes on to more distant relatives such as the Iguanodons, the Stegosaurs (We look a lot alike, don't you think?), and the Triceratops clan. Following views of a falling asteroid and other prehistoric catastrophes, the proud pullet struts off to clamber atop a huge egg...only to flee in panic when it hatches out not a cute little Triceratops chicken or some other safe playmate but a toothy T. Rex. In his cartoon illustrations van Genechten doesn't try for realistic detail but captures Mommy Loci and Daddy Rapt rolling past on a stone-wheeled tandem bike, plasters each album leaf with droll captions (Our first Diplodo-kiss), and sets up the climactic visual punchline with an earlier portrait of drooling cousin Rex. The egg appears from nowhere in the story, but something very like it is visible in an endpaper gallery of marbled-paper dino eggs. Actual information is included in the form of dates (all B.C.) and (inexplicably) tickets scrapbooked into the pages with each dino's weight in pounds. Young readers who think the dinosaurs are all extinct will appreciate this truthful revelation. Well, truth-y, anyway. - Kirkus Reviews A fun introduction to dino science for readers...a cute...add for your dino collections. - Mom Read It
Guido Van Genechten (1957, Belgium) studied drawing and painting, graphics and photography. Afterwards he worked for many years in the graphic industry. Now Guido works as a fulltime illustrator of children’s books. In 1998 he won the international Illustrator’s Award City of Hasselt with his picture book Ricky. This prize was the beginning of his international career as a children’s book illustrator. Since that moment, Guido Van Genechten has created many best-selling stories and received several awards. In 2007 he was the winner of the Reader’s Digest Award for Best Children’s Book Illustrator. And in the past ten years his books were published in 30 countries around the world.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781605374239 |
| ISBN 10 | 1605374237 |
| Title | The Truth About Dinosaurs |
| Author | Guido Genechten |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Clavis Publishing |
| Year published | 2018-08-16 |
| Number of pages | 32 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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