by Andrew GoldsmithEdition: Library Binding
Price: $23.96
Availability: In Stock
14 used & new from $17.96
Excellent Children's Informational Picture Book!, April 14, 2007
Informative and well-designed, this book is sure to fascinate any child while importing knowledge about the strange creatures that once inhabited the world. Discussed are the giant flightless bird gastornis, the elephant/camel-like macrauchenia, the smilodon or saber-toothed cat, the wolf like whale ancestor andresarchus, , the gorilla/goat chalicothere, the amphibian whale called ambulocetus, the massive giraffe-like hippo indricothere, the great mammoth, terror bird phorusrhacos, and the extremely dangerous and all-devouring pig called entelodont. Five other beasts are summarized on two pages, and each animal included in the book has a finely illustrated color picture to go along with it. Some entries have additional pictures, or photographs from the series "Walking with Prehistoric beasts." The convenient "Extreme Scores" column on each page is great for easy reference, my only gripe is that though they did mention how long ago certain beasts lived and the length of time that each one lived for each, they did not provide extinction dates for every one of them.
No comments:
Post a Comment