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Title: Asteroid Impact by Douglas Henderson ISBN: 0-8037-2500-0 Publisher: Dial Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Scary, creepy, and worth every penny
Comment: Okay, so "creepy" and "scary" aren't usually words associated with childrens' books...but let's face it, the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period wasn't exactly nice and tame either...
When I first read this book, it gave me goosebumps...in fact, every time I read through it, it gives me goosebumps...the artwork is simply astounding. Henderson is the best of the best: you ARE there when you are looking at his paintings...and these paintings are nothing less than terrifying in their realism. I highly recomend this book to anyone and everyone. Buy one. Buy tons, because this is the closest you will ever get to experiencing the K/T Impact Event.
Rating: 5
Summary: ASTEROID IMPACT A SMASH!
Comment: Douglas Henderson's newest children's book ASTEROID IMPACT is without doubt the best nonfiction dinosaur book for kids to hit the shelves since, well, Henderson's last book. Lavishly illustrated with 28 breathtaking full-color scenes (including the cover) and 6 color diagrammatic illustrations, the book sets up and depicts the scenario of an asteroid impact and its aftermath at the end of the Cretaceous Period, 65 million years ago.
No one is better than Henderson when it comes to rendering dinosaurs and other Mesozoic denizens in their natural habitats, and this book contains what I consider to be some of his best paleolife work ever. Unsurprisingly, he also shows the same affinity and aptitude for astronomical art, presenting a series of awe-inspiring space scenes that simply boggle the mind with their artistry. He starts the 40-page book with several eye-poppingly beautiful scenes of life in Late Cretaceous North America and its environs just prior to the impact, then begins interspersing them with some of the best space art this side of Chesley Bonestell as he begins showing the asteroid's approach. When the mountain-sized rock finally comes hurtling through Earth's atmosphere and smashes into the ocean near what is now the Yucatán Peninsula, so precisely designed and brilliantly executed are the images that one has the overwhelming impression of viewing an actual documentary film of the event.
The book's text is no less an accomplishment, concise and intelligently written, unlike the (sadly) greater majority of cliché-ridden dinosaur books for children that inhabit bookstore shelves, volumes that impart little of real substance and uncaringly continue to perpetuate outmoded ideas. This is Henderson's second outing as writer/artist (DINOSAUR TREE, published by Bradbury Press in 1994, was his first solo effort) and the time and care taken to ensure that this book is accurate and accessible is evident on every page. At no time does he insult his young audience by "dumbing down" his text, yet another common complaint concerning the current crop of dinosaur books aimed at kids. Henderson presents his data in clear, simple language without sacrificing any of the underlying scientific content. A rare feat, and one to be lauded in an age where science, our one true connection to the real world, is all-too-often relegated to the background or, worse, ignored entirely in favor of mindless "entertainment".
Buy this book. Better yet, buy two. Give one to a child who'll appreciate it and keep the other for yourself.
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Title: Dinosaur Ghosts: The Mystery of Coelophysis by J. Lynett Gillette, Doug Henderson, Douglas Henderson ISBN: 0803717210 Publisher: Dial Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: The Signers: The Fifty-Six Stories Behind the Declaration of Independence by Dennis Brindell Fradin, Michael McCurdy ISBN: 0802788491 Publisher: Walker & Company Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Leonardo's Horse by Jean Fritz, Hudson Talbott ISBN: 0399235760 Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: We Were There, Too!: Young People in U.S. History by Phillip M. Hoose ISBN: 0374382522 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 08 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread (NEWBERY MEDAL BOOK) by Kate Dicamillo, Timothy B. Ering ISBN: 0763617229 Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA) Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
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