Sharks and Other Sea Monsters (Encyclopedia Prehistorica Series) » (POP-UP)

Children's book creator and pop-up book pioneer Robert Sabuda is a master at making both classic and original stories come to life, from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to his own magical Winter's Tale.

Just when you thought it was safe to go in the water! The second astonishing ENCYCLOPEDIA PREHISTORICA book from Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart is about to pop up everywhere.

While dinosaurs patrolled the lands, massive prehistoric sharks, giant scorpions, and colossal squid cruised the ancient oceans - most with just one thing in mind: eat or be eaten. In this companion volume to the best-selling ENCYCLOPEDIA PREHISTORICA: DINOSAURS, pop-up masters Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart explore the prehistoric underwater world, where monsters like megalodon ruled the waves.

Full of captivating facts and more than 35 breathtaking pop-ups, this incredible volume is sure to astonish and amaze everyone from budding marine biologists to confirmed landlubbers. After all, if prehistoric coelacanths and crocodiles are still around, what else might be lurking in today's largely unexplored oceans?

Child Magazine

On the heels of their pop-up bestseller on dinosaurs, paper engineers Sabuda and Reinhart turn their focus to ancient sea creatures. Both a visual and tactile feast, their new book features a giant shark (with jagged teeth that chomp down as the page turns), fearsome sea lizards, 7-foot sea scorpions-and even a nod to Nessie of Loch Ness fame. When the novelty of the pop-up wears off, there's still plenty of substance nestled within the lively text: "An orthodontist's nightmare, sarcosuchus had a horrendous overbite, and its mouth was filled with nearly 100 teeth, some the size of railroad spikes!" (Ages 6 to 8)
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