Dinosaur and Other Prehistoric Creatures Atlas: The Prehistoric World as You've Never Seen It Before

by D.K. Publishing

Journey back in time and find out where dinosaurs roamed. This unique children's atlas explores each continent, revealing fossil sites and stories on every map.

This atlas is packed with maps of early Earth and more than 40 profiles of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals. Stare down a T-Rex in North America. Watch out for Velociraptors' slashing claws in the Gobi Desert. Trek across the Siberian tundra and discover a woolly mammoth. This stunning book uses breathtaking computer-generated imagery to make every animal come to life.

Using specially created maps, this dinosaur atlas also shows you what the world looked like millions of years ago. A modern 3D globe next to each map helps you understand the arrangement of the continents over time and why we find fossils where we do. You can see what paleontologists have dug up on each continent and learn how they put together a picture of the past from a puzzle of ancient clues.

Dinosaur Atlas reveals the prehistoric world as never before, and is an essential addition to the library of every young dinosaur expert.

Genres: Nonfiction, Dinosaurs, Animals

160 pages, Hardcover

First published October 19, 2021

About the author

Dorling Kindersley (DK) is a British multinational publishing company specializing in illustrated reference books for adults and children in 62 languages. It is part of Penguin Random House, a consumer publishing company jointly owned by Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA and Pearson PLC. Bertelsmann owns 53% of the company and Pearson owns 47%.

Established in 1974, DK publishes a range of titles in genres including travel (including Eyewitness Travel Guides), arts and crafts, business, history, cooking, gaming, gardening, health and fitness, natural history, parenting, science and reference. They also publish books for children, toddlers and babies, covering such topics as history, the human body, animals and activities, as well as licensed properties such as LEGO, Disney and DeLiSo, licensor of the toy Sophie la Girafe. DK has offices in New York, London, Munich, New Delhi, Toronto and Melbourne.

Source: Wikipedia.

Reviews

[Theediscerning · Rating 4 out of 5]

This bulky, fact-heavy encyclopaedia looks at dinosaurs, not through their evolution, family tree and timeline, and not on a type-by-type basis. Neither does it look at them in the order we discovered them. No, it plants them as firmly as it can on to the world and lets us see them all where they once were. Now, this is a bit awkward when it comes to the shifting continents – so four-layered maps do what they can to show which bit of Pangaea is what now, and where the critters called home both then and now. Often I found myself too puzzled as to where we were looking, though. Using what is very much a CGI aesthetic, each double-page spread has its own beastie, with the usual – pronunciation guide, size in relation to anonymous human, etc – but with much less of the splash image. Instead three visuals per monster show the relevant information – a close-up of the head and neck (often a sort of last-thing-you'll-see-before-it-beheads-you kind of gape), a full profile, and the map of the terrain back then.

Such a geographical way of splitting the book actually makes it quite easy for once to see dinosaurs in relation to each other – especially when, say, many were almost simultaneously sharing the space just east of the Rockies when a giant prehistoric sea disappeared. OK, we lose the detail of the huge gaps between, for instance, coelophysis and stegosaurus. But I guess what the book does, and what it clearly wants to do, is to give you a sense of these having been walking on the very ground beneath our feet. In looking at every continent one by one, and showing us what would have once roamed here, swum there, or flown above Romania we get a feel for the prehistory of our homes, much more than the purchasing power of a Victorian museum might allow. (It also makes us aware that velociraptors and other Jurassic Park critters would never have met.) Maps of the modern continents pointing out known fossil hotbeds are indications of where to go to join in with mankind's learning of these times, and 'bringing it all home' is very much the intent. Which is what you should do with this volume, which manages to make you wonder why other books haven't always been structured this way.

[Tyra · Rating 5 out of 5]

As someone who always loved dinosaurs and never quite grew out of that stage, I'm always looking for more dino related books to read and this one didn't disappoint. This goes through Earth and the countries and tells you all about the dinosaurs that lived there and what the world looked like back then, this provides an interesting insight into what the world looked like when dinosaurs ruled the world

If you have ever loved dinosaurs or know someone who does, this book is for you

I received this E-ARC on Netgalley in return for an honest review

[MK · Rating 5 out of 5]

For those who want to learn more about the types and history of dinosaurs, this DK encyclopedia is the perfect resource.

DK has other encyclopedias about dinosaurs, but this book is specifically about dinosaurs.
All illustrations are vivid, powerful, and very exciting.

[Megan · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great book for children (and adults!) who want to find out more about dinosaurs and where they lived. Attractive illustrations are well balanced with informative text.

[Mrs. DL · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very practical, well-organized, with gorgeous illustrations.