Gigantosaurus

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Little Ankylosaurus keeps tricking the others by screaming and telling them to run and hide from Gigantosaurus. Younger children will enjoy having this read to them, while the language used is more suitable for older children to read alone. It's essentially a 'boy who cried wolf' but in this case, the young monster was looking for the largest carnivore ever to roam the planet during the time of the dinosaurs.

The story was simple, with repetitions, but the expectations were nice and I liked that the book ended with a touch of humor. This activity helps your Year 1 class understand and process the information behind the words they are reading. The Gruffalo was one of the only books I’ve read where that isn’t the case, though unfortunately that level of attention wasn’t repeated in all the other books by Julia Donaldson. Yet, I found Bonehead to be the cutest of the dinosaurs, easily exciteable and obviously a little fearful. So if you have a child that loves being read to every night before bed, is dinosaur mad, and wants the same book over and over and over again, then this book won’t go extinct too soon!

There's also a fold out page and, to whet the appetites of knowledge seekers, there are snippets of information about the featured dinosaurs on the two final double spreads. Despite their large size, they can be quite stealthy and are skilled at developing poisons and weapons. Veterupristisaurus ("old shark lizard"), Concavenator ("Cuenca hunter, named after the area of Spain where it was found), and Acrocanthosaurus ("high spined lizard") were earlier carcharodontosaurids from Africa, Europe, and North America respectively. Little dinosaurs Bonehead, Tiny, Fin and Bill, have been warned about the “fierce and wild” Gigantosaurus.

From the 'Meat-eating Bull' to the 'Patagonian Claw', discover how we know about dinosaurs and what might have happened to them!Describes, in comic book format, the physical characteristics and behavior of the giganotosaurus, a meat-eating dinosaur of the Cretaceous period. Speaking as a book designer, the only drawback for me is that the typography was a little less thought out than the illustrations, the story, and the cover. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. His books have won the Times Educational Supplement, Primary School Book Award for Science in 1996, the Helen Roney Sattler Award from the Dinosaur Society in 1993, and the Educational Press Association of America Distinguished Achievement Award in 1993.