Illustrated by Matthew Trueman
2018, Candlewick Press
17.99 HC
40 pgs.
Goodreads rating: 3.75 - 20 ratings
My rating:5 all the way!
Endpapers: pale green solid
Illustrations are edge-of-page to edge-of-page, big, bold and wonderful, created with mixed media.
My comments: What a superb book!!! I'm not disappointed that all the text is poetry, I'm giddy with happiness about it. This book is many things....a timeline through the past (going waaaaay back), clever poetry of many styles, wonderfully informative and interesting facts, and it's gorgeous to look at! What a great book for kids who like dinosaurs. Highly recommended.
Trilobite (from the Cambrian Period; 544 - 505 million years ago)
So many of you.
So long ago.
So much above you.
Little below.
Now you lie hidden
deep in a clock,
uncountable ticks
silenced by rock
Brachytrachelopan (from the Jurassic Period; 208 - 144 million years ago)
Your neck too short!
Your tail too long!
Somehow you're
put together wrong.
And that name!
You should renounce it.
It takes a genius
to pronounce it.
Quetzalcoatlus (Cretaceous Period 144 - 65 million years ago)
Unrepentant.
Carnivore.
Largest of all
flying things.
How the timid
must have trembled
in the shadow
of your wings.
Titanoboa and Carbonemys (Paleogene Period; 60 - 24 million years ago)
The largest snake
that's lived on Earth,
you weighed a ton
(a three-foot girth),
your length not short
or marvelous.
And then there is Carbonemys,
with whom you shared a habitat.
It frightens me to think of that.
Goodreads: Return to the prehistoric era and discover a host of creatures both novel and familiar, from the mysterious trilobite to the famed T. rex.
Care to meet a dunkleosteus? An apatosaurus? How about the dragonflyesque meganaura? In a collection that's organized chronologically by epoch and is sure to intrigue everyone from armchair dino enthusiasts to budding paleontologists, David Elliott and Matthew Trueman illuminate some of the most fascinating creatures ever to evolve on the earth. Combining poems both enlightening and artful with illustrations perfect for poring over, this volume ensures fascinating trips back to a time as enthralling and variable as any in our planet's evolutionary history.
Care to meet a dunkleosteus? An apatosaurus? How about the dragonflyesque meganaura? In a collection that's organized chronologically by epoch and is sure to intrigue everyone from armchair dino enthusiasts to budding paleontologists, David Elliott and Matthew Trueman illuminate some of the most fascinating creatures ever to evolve on the earth. Combining poems both enlightening and artful with illustrations perfect for poring over, this volume ensures fascinating trips back to a time as enthralling and variable as any in our planet's evolutionary history.
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