Kaleidoscope of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life

By Author / Illustrator

Greer Stothers, Prof Michael J Benton

Genre

Non Fiction

Age range(s)

Publisher

Wide Eyed Editions

ISBN

9780711266896

Format

Hardback

Published

15-02-2022

Synopsis

Think dinosaurs were all brown, green and scaly? Think again, on a kaleidoscopic journey into the technicolour world of dinosaurs and other prehistoric beasts as they really may have looked. A richly detailed and vibrantly illustrated natural history book, this fascinating read is bursting with colour and will show you dinosaurs like never before. Discover cutting-edge theories on feathered dinosaurs, the colourful secrets of the fossil record, and what million-year-old remains tell us about how extinct animals lived and looked. Palaeo-artist and author Greer Stothers reimagines the dinosaurs and their prehistoric peers, using fossils and the examples of living species to bring this often misrepresented world to life.

Meet dinosaurs of every hue of the rainbow and find out what colours and patterns they may have been. This book is packed full of fascinating questions, like, What colours could dinosaurs' feathers have been? Would a snow-dwelling dino have been a brilliant white? What could mutant dinosaurs have looked like?

This is a beautifully illustrated first look at the kaleidoscopic world of dinosaurs and other creatures for young children, and makes a gorgeous gift for young palaeontologists and art-lovers alike.

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Reviews

Kaleidoscope of Dinosaurs is unlike any other dinosaur book I have had the pleasure of reading. Firstly, every page is bright and wonderfully illustrated and the pictures really marry well with the text. The book begins with a walk through time, informing the reader that we are all connected, to each other and the 'Tree of Life' really brings this link to life. This information would really work well in a KS1 or KS2 classroom - as there could be lots of discussions around evolution in upper KS2 through to how fossils are formed in KS1.

The book brings dinosaurs to life by concentrating on their markings, what the colour of the dinosaurs meant in terms of how predators to reacted to the dinosaur in question and how the colour of mammals have been captured by humankind drawings.

There are so many ways that this book could be used, but I think it would be most effective in an art lesson. The shades, markings, colour ways that can be explored is limitless. The teacher could be working with a class of Paleo-artists!

A truly unique take on Dinosaurs and how the reader may now view them from a different point of view.

64 pages / Reviewed by Emma Nelson, teacher