Plesiosaur Peril (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781554536337)

In the Tales of Prehistoric Life series, award-winning author and illustrator Daniel Loxton uses stunningly realistic, state-of-the-art, computer-generated images to vividly re-create the undersea world of the Jurassic period. Featured here are creatures called plesiosaurs, marine reptiles distantly related to land-based dinosaurs. We follow the tale of a baby Cryptoclidus, a type of plesiosaur, whose curiosity about her new world in the ocean leads her to wander away from her mother and the rest of her protective pod. As the baby happily explores and plays, she is suddenly confronted by an enormous Liopleurodon, a predatory and much larger plesiosaur. In a highly dramatic scene, the baby, with the help of the rest of her pod, makes a narrow escape from becoming the Liopleurodon's dinner.The exciting adventure story and high-impact digital illustrations, each covering a two-page spread, will captivate fans of prehistoric animals. But the book is also a terrific source of factual scientific information about the lives of plesiosaurs, their ocean habitat, the ocean's other inhabitants and the ways these creatures interacted with each other. As a special bonus, there is an information page describing these plesiosaurs at the back of the book. With its photo-realistic illustrations, this book would make an excellent resource for life science lessons on prehistoric animals and their environments, evolution and how modern scientists use their discoveries to make deductions about the animals of the distant past.

Author: Daniel Loxton
ISBN-10: 1554536332
ISBN-13: 9781554536337
Publisher: Kids Can Press
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2014
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 11.26h x 8.77w x 0.41d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.1
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 166496 / Plesiosaur Peril


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2014
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2014 pg. 36 - Below Average, With Minor Flaw