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I’m carrying on the dinosaur theme today. We are big fans of the What On Earth? series of books and I was super excited to learn about the launch of the new Explorer Dinosaurs! book aimed at children aged 7-11 years of age. Perfect for my almost 8-year-old son to enjoy.
Explorer Dinosaurs! was published on 16th October and as part of the fun of this book, there is a chance to become a secret agent, and the first 100 agents who crack the hidden code within the book will win a portion of a Coprolite Fossil, aka petrified dinosaur poo. What more can you ask for? Well, actually there’s so much more than that crammed inside Explorer Dinosaurs!
Join Agent Eagle as you look through the 175 pages tracing the history of the dinosaurs over 175 million years. My son was thrilled to discover that as early as 1676 in Oxfordshire large bones were being discovered that belonged to no animal known to man. It took until 1822 for those bones to be identified as being part of a Megalosaurus.
With the wonderful illustrations in Explorer Dinosaurs! assisting, we learn about how the dinosaurs grew, what they ate and where they lived.
Explorer Dinosaurs! also covers the death of the dinosaurs and what happened to wipe them off the face of the earth. Questions such as ‘were the dinosaurs too big’ and ‘did the dinosaurs freeze’ are covered in this book too.
As we’ve come to love with the What On Earth? series of books, Explorer Dinosaurs! comes with a fold out time line showing 100 different dinosaurs and where they fitted in across the various periods that the dinosaurs lived. The timeline can be removed from the book if you want to have it on a wall as a poster too.
We’re both really impressed with Explorer Dinosaurs!, it’s full of facts and written in a way children can understand easily. It’s a great addition to our collection and priced at £9.99 I can recommend it for any bookshelf.
I thought I might suggest something else for those dinosaur-loving fans out there that I came across recently. You can have all sorts of creative fun whilst making use of some dinosaur clipart. From party invitations, greeting cards and decorations, there is a whole feast of options available. Let me know if you try any of them out won’t you?
If you’re interested in purchasing Explorer Dinosaurs! for yourselves I’ve included my Amazon Affiliate link below for your reference.
We are also looking forward to the release of further titles in the Explorer series in the coming months, which will include Insects!, Plants! and Mammals!
The current favourite dinosaur in our house is Coelophysis because they were so fast, vicious predators and hunted in huge packs. This changes on a very regular basis so the answer may well be different if you were asking tomorrow!
My boys love the tyrannosaurus rex because it was one of the largest meat-eating dinosaurs that ever lived and it could run fast!
has to be the Pterodactyl because it could fly!
The t rex because it is so big and ferocious.
Pterodactyls i always found it fascinating they are so big but could fly
The youngest hasn’t yet grasped that there are different types of dinosaur but I rather like the very ugly ones like Suzhousaurus.
velocirators
Probably a T Rex because we like seeing the skeleton at Manchester museum!
a brontasaurus such a big body a small head
Tyrannosaurus because it was so fierce and had sharp teeth!
T-Rex is our favourite – my son thinks its funny that it has such small arms!
T-Rex – because he is the king!
Stegosaurus as its spikey
the t rex is our favourite its mighty
T-Rex in our house because he was so powerful and strong.
We love T-Rex he is massive
The favourite dinosaur in my house is the T-rex because he’s so mighty and strong.
Tyrannasaurus he’s the biggest and meanest!( so they tell me!)
T-Rex in our house
My sons are big fans of the Gigantasaurus
My little boy loves the food dinosaur and Arlo is his favourite, I think he is a diplodocus
My sons love the T. rex because there’s a song they sing at school about them
T-Rex because they are the king of dinos
The Velocorapter, they may be nasty but they are mischievious with it
I love ankylosaurus, I had a toy of it as a kid so I always make sure I point him out to my son when we look at dino-books.
t-rex because he has little arms
Raptors because they are fast! X
Diplodocus… they look kind of slow and friendly!
T rex because it’s fast
We like Stegosaurus as he’s a nice planteater dinosaur!
Stegosaurus, cause they look funny! Haha
My son loves velociraptors because they hide and jump out on their prey which makes them scary.
My kids love the t rex as it was so big.
We the diplodocus, so big but a lovely friendly plant eater
trex because we like jurassic park
Triceratops because it looks like a rhino on steroids
T Rex because they’re so big and strong but with funny looking small arms!
T Rex because it is big and scary looking
Brachiosaurus because of their long necks!
a brontasaurus because they are fascinating x
My son’s favourite dinosaur is the diplodocus because he likes their long neck!
T-Rex because he can eat all the other dinosaurs
Pterodactyl because it could fly
Triceratops – that’s the first one he our son could pronounce!
Pterodactyl – love the screeching noise
My youngest likes the T-Rex best as he thinks it would eat his big brother and solve all his problems in one single “munch”.
T-rex is the favourite here – we’ve got a big t-rex skeleton ornament my daughter loves to play with. 🙂
A stegosaurus because I will never forget when my daughter was 2 we were walking around a display of model dinosaurs & out of nowhere she pointed to it & shouted “stegiesoarus”! It was the cutest thing & incredible they she recognised it!
Triceratops – he looks the coolest
Brontosaurus because they are cuddly apparently (we have a soft toy!)
We love pterodactyls as they can fly
We like the triceratops in our house
Trex because its big and my kids say its the boss of dinosaurs
We love T Rex because he is fierce!
Triceratops because just one horn is so boring
We love the T-Rex because it’s strong and scary
We love veloceraptors as they’re the ultimate ancient predators!
Has to be a dilophosaurus as they look amazing!
The Diplodicus, because we think they were the gentle giants of the dinosaur world
The T-Rex because it is one of the bigger ones!
diplodocus, love the long necks and lines
Raptors, they run fast & make a lot of chatter!
The T-Rex as they’re so mighty.
We love the diplodocus because they are so very long!
Diplodicus because they are so gentle and look really nice
Ours is a diplodicus as a gentle giant
The T-Rex is a firm favourite in our house
The T-Rex because it is large, fast and the king of the dinosaurs
Has to be T-Rex as he is the scariest
Deffo a T REX, BIG BAD @SS!
my grandsons favourite is the triceratops, he is dinosaur mad and has been since he was two. Triceratops has always been his favourite
T Rex as it is the scariest!
I think my boys would say the T-Rex because it’s the most famous dinosaur, and it’s pretty scary!
T-rex because he goes RRRROOOOOAAAAARRRR apparently 😉
My son loves the tyrannosaurus rex as its the scariest of all the dinosaurs
T Rex has a strong face and bosy!
Our favourite is a cuddly Brontosaurus called Dizzy that my son has had since he was born
T – rex because i love the band too!
T Rex
My son loves T Rex, and he says it is because his name starts with T, just like mummy’s name.
Sauropod, they looks cute 🙂
T Rex because it is scary!
T-Res
Because he’s the king
Velociraptor because it has a big toe claw! (apparently)
T-Rex because they are fierce and have funny little arms!
We love the triceratops because of its horns.
Tyrannosaurus because it was so fierce
Tree because of the sharp teeth
The T-Rex because he’s scaaaarrrryyy!
T-Rex because they are nig x
Pterodactyl because it flies
T-rex – as, in my great-nephew’s words, “although he has only short arms, he kicks butts very well”. 🙂
we love Pterodactyl because it is a great word!
Its got to be the mighty t rex, it cant be any other can it?
T Rex because they were so immense and would have been an amazing sight.
The Stegosaurus as it was a nickname when I was younger.
Grandsons is t rex, he has a few toy ones and a small model one in his bedroom
T-Rex x
t rex
T. Rex so big and fierce
we like the t rex. they are fierce but we like it when they are friendly in cartoons
The trex because of his little arms
We love the Triceratops because of his 3 horns.
Stegasauras, as I loved the design of the tail and shields on the back.
Stegosaurus my son loves the spiky back
Triceratops is at the top of our list. My son loves them as he says “they are just the best dinosaurs ever!”
T rex because its big and fierce and saves the day in Jurassic world.