<p><b>Travel back in time in this collection of exhilarating dinosaur adventures for kids aged 7-10 from palaeontologist and YouTuber Kallie Moore.</b><br><br>Who needs Jurassic World when the truth is this exciting? Prepare yourself for jaw-dropping discoveries, scandalous stories, and dinosaurs so weird you won’t believe they’re real! The tales in this dinosaur book are all completely true and many are included in a kids’ book for the first time. Readers will come face-to-face with incredible prehistoric beasts including the Australian dinosaurs that fossilized into gemstones, the prehistoric shark with a circular saw in its mouth, and the relative of T. rex that was found frozen at the top of a mountain in Antarctica…<br><br>The book is broken down into chapters covering the whole of Earth’s history:<br><br><b>Chapter 1 - The Beginning</b> - featuring prehistoric goo and the first squishy animals<br><br><b>Chapter 2 - An Explosion of Life</b> - featuring king-sized trilobites, armoured fish, and giant bugs!<br><br><b>Chapter 3 - The Age of Reptiles</b> - featuring spiny sauropods, pterosaurs the size of airplanes, and musical dinosaurs.<br><br><b>Chapter 4 - The Recent Past</b> - featuring gigantic snakes, Ice Age mammoths and sabre-toothed cats, and the hairy primates that would one day evolve into humans!<br><br>Every thrilling story has been meticulously researched by author Kallie Moore, a fossil expert who also hosts the hit YouTube show <i>PBS Eons</i>. Beautiful illustrations by critically-acclaimed illustrator Becky Thorns bring incredible prehistoric beasts like Stegosaurus and Triceratops to life for younger readers.<br><br>Unlike most kids’ dinosaur books on the market, Tales of the Prehistoric World shines a light on the work of palaeontologists – from Susan Hendrickson, who discovered the most complete T. rex ever found, to Nizar Ibrahim, whose discoveries in the Sahara desert changed everything we thought we knew about Spinosaurus (SPOILER: it could swim!)<br><br><b>A gift to stand the test of time</b><br><br>This beautiful hardback book makes the perfect gift for dino-mad kids. The cloth-textured cover is gilded with gold foil, and everything is printed using sustainable FSC® certified paper.<br><br><b>Collect the series</b><br><br>Part of Neon Squid’s acclaimed series of educational bedtime stories that also includes <i>Tales of Ancient Worlds</i> and <i>Tales of World War II</i>.</p>