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A Trip to Dinosaur Time
2002
First Published
3.13
Average Rating
32
Number of Pages

A top picture-book artist offers a bright flight of fancy for dinosaur lovers, prospective time travelers, and kids everywhere who let curiosity get the best of them. It all started when Tom saw Mom’s new egg timer. It was round and magnetic and looked like a spaceship, and it fit perfectly in the palm of Tom’s hand. Despite Mom’s warnings, Tom just had to press the flashing blue button, and suddenly - Whizz! BANG! - he was gone, transported across a zillion days and a zillion nights, back into dinosaur time! Fascinating and suspenseful, Michael Foreman’s picture-book fantasy is a passport to prehistoric fun.

Avg Rating
3.13
Number of Ratings
24
5 STARS
13%
4 STARS
21%
3 STARS
46%
2 STARS
8%
1 STARS
13%
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Author

Michael Foreman
Michael Foreman
Author · 52 books
Michael has worked on magazines, book jackets, animated films, TV adverts, and even for the police, sketching criminals described by witnesses. As well as illustrating many of his own books, Michael has illustrated over a hundred books for authors such as Shakespeare, J. M. Barrie, the Brothers Grimm, Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde. Michael has travelled widely - to Africa, Japan, the Arctic Circle, China and Malaysia, the Himalayas, Siberia and New Zealand - to research his books. "I do a lot of research when I'm travelling - I find it thrilling to discover the particular 'art' of different landscapes and work them into a book. But I find I have to travel by myself, otherwise I'm constantly getting involved in other people's impressions of a place... I try to be invisible when I'm travelling, so I tend to listen in on conversations rather than participate in them - I just want to look and draw."
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