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|author=Emily Hawkins and Lucy Letherland
|title=Atlas of Dinosaur Adventures: Step Into a Prehistoric World
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=You might think, what with books about dinosaurs being just as varied (and almost as old) as dinosaurs themselves, that there was little to say about them that hadn't been said, and few new ways of giving us information about them. Well, I would put it to you that this is a novel variant. Over many jumbo spreads, we get a different dinosaur in a different situation each time, whether it be being born, being slain or learning to fly, and the book gives us all the usual facts, not in chronological order, nor in some other more spurious fashion, but grouped by where these dinosaurs lived. The continent-wide chapters have several entrants in each, and what with the book hitting all corners of our current globe, it brings the world of dinosaur remains right to our door, and makes this old subject feel remarkably new…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786030349</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Danny Weston
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445669935</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Alexandre Lacroix and Ronan Badel
|summary=You know dragons. They're there to look splendid and fierce, and to burn down human villages in rampages, with or without treasure in mind. But they need to be trained in that. And our father dragon has just tasked his son dragon with that very errand - to go and torch a human house. The lad is reluctant to cook anything more severe than lunch - what could possibly happen?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910277231</amazonuk>
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