Dinosaur Fiction

Falling behind their classmates on a school trip to the Alps, Finn and Milo stumble upon an egg buried in ice. Later that night it hatches, and a 65-million-year-old baby is born. Arty is a microraptor brought back from extinction. But keeping her safe proves harder. Wicked scientists will do anything to get their hands on her, and soon Finn and Milo must run for their lives …

Two young dinosaurs from opposite sides of the floodplain bump into each other by chance. He's a small meat-eater, and she's a big plant-eater. They've got no parents, no food, no friends. They're supposed to be enemies, but they decide to stick together instead. It's not easy. When she gets caught with him, she ends up banished from her herd. He faces a huge rival who could stomp him out with one back foot.

The last person young Josh expects to visit him on Christmas Eve is an orphaned shepherd boy who mysteriously appears in his bedroom. He tells Josh about the best story ever - the very first Christmas! The young shepherd weaves a fascinating story about the glory of the angels who announced Jesus' birth and the poor shepherds and street people who went to see the Savior in a cavelike stable. But the wondrous story of Christmas dissolves the next morning when Josh finds himself hopelessly lost in a blizzard.

When Dino Mike finds a map that could explain why the Herbies mysteriously vanished from the Good Lands, of course nobody believes him. Unwilling to sit and watch his stubborn family starve, Dino Mike sets off to find the Herbies to trick them into coming back to the Good Lands for the Carnies to eat. When Dino Mike makes a few pals among the food along the way, things get crispy between his friends and family.

Wussten Sie schon, dass Kinder, die an Dinosauriern interessiert sind, neusten Studien nach mehr Intelligenz entwickeln? Dieses Interesse schult nämlich wichtige Kompetenzen. Das Erlernen der komplizierten Namen beispielsweise hilft unseren Kindern später bei der Aneignung von Fremdsprachen und stärkt ihr analytisches Denken! Nicht nur deshalb hat der bekannte Dinosaurier-Autor Markus Peter Kretschmer für Ihr Kind dieses ganz besondere Buch geschrieben, das nun von Birgit Brauneder liebevoll vertont worden ist.

Der Weihnachtsmann kann es nicht fassen: Seine böse Liste wird lang und länger. Was ist da los? Und plötzlich taucht dort ein Name auf, den niemand erwartet hätte: William Trudel, der zweifache Retter des Weihnachtsfests und beste Freund des Weihnachtosaurus! Kann doch wohl nicht sein! Unverzüglich macht sich der Weihnachtsdino auf die Reise, um herauszufinden, was mit William passiert ist. Unterwegs trifft der Saurier jede Menge Kinder, die auch auf der berüchtigten Liste stehen – und plötzlich geht es um viel mehr, als zwischen Falsch und Richtig zu unterscheiden.

For the passengers and crew, American Cruise Airlines Flight 839 was supposed to be a routine red-eye. But destiny often changes people’s lives in ways they can’t imagine. When a dinosaur fossil is unearthed in the central Nevada desert, the last thing Andrea Alejandro, a graduate student in paleontology, expected to find was the tail section of an airplane in the same strata of Earth. After Flight 839 crash lands in unfamiliar terrain, Sarah documents the daily routine she and her fellow passengers follow, waiting to be saved.

Dedicated reptile expert Oakley Laveau loves the thrill of wrestling a ’gator. But her dream job at the swamp tour slips away when she’s charged with a crime she doesn’t remember: her best friend’s murder. Sentenced to life on a secluded isle, she’ll have to battle violent criminals and genetically modified dinosaurs to uncover the truth. As soon as she steps on the island, she’s swept up by the charming leader of a gang of convicts and his dubious offer of protection.

This delightful bilingual picture book is about finding just the right food—and just the right friend.

Travel to the fossil-ridden lands of Montana as you stumble upon a mysterious cave that turns you into a triceratops, your best friend into a stegosaurus, the class know-it-all into a pterodactyl, and the school bully into the ferocious Tyrannosaurus rex every time there is a full moon.

Mexican Dinosaur is a poetic offering from C.L. "Rooster" Martinez and Write About Now Publishing. The collection of poems is a metamodernist take on the changing economic demographics of his San Antonio barrio, the confusion and desire to flourish within a hyphenated American identity, and the force of gravity that the push and pull of culture from both sides of a Mexican/American ethnicity has.

Ein neues Abenteuer für William Trudel und seinen besten Freund, den Weihnachtosaurus! Ein Jahr nach seiner zauberhaften Begegnung mit dem außergewöhnlichsten Dinosaurier aller Zeiten verschlägt es William wieder an den magischen Nordpol zum Weihnachtsmann. Dort trifft er auf die unheimliche Winterhexe.

Carter und seine Schwester Bea treffen in der Steppe Afrikas auf einen Eingeborenenstamm, der im Einklang mit den seltenen Stegosauriern lebt. Der Stammeshäuptling ist fasziniert davon, wie Carter und die Dinosaurier miteinander umgehen. Es scheint, als hätte Carter eine ganz besondere Gabe. Doch dann macht der Häuptling eine düstere Vorhersage über seine Zukunft. Ist Carter etwa in tödlicher Gefahr? Und können sie ihn noch retten?

William liebt Weihnachten über alles. Doch seinen größten Wunsch kann niemand erfüllen: einen echten Dinosaurier. Da hat er die Rechnung aber ohne die Wichtel am Nordpol gemacht, die tief im Eis ein geheimnisvolles Ei entdecken. Der Weihnachtsmann persönlich brütet es aus. Zur Verblüffung aller schlüpft ein kleiner Dino: der Weihnachtosaurus! Als er und William sich in der Weihnachtsnacht begegnen, erleben sie nicht nur ein fantastisches, zum Brüllen komisches Abenteuer, sondern auch, was es heißt, seinem Herzen zu folgen - selbst wenn man dabei im Rollstuhl sitzt.

On a zoology expedition up the Amazon, Professor Challenger has made an inexplicable discovery. Back in London, his claims are ridiculed throughout the professional community. Reluctantly, he recounts to Journalist Edward Malone, "Curupuri is the spirit of the woods, something terrible, something malevolent, something to be avoided. None can describe its shape or nature, but it is a word of terror along the Amazon. Something terrible lay that way. It was my business to find out what it was."

Magdalys' connection with the dinosaurs has led the US Army to some important victories, but the Civil War's not over yet, and the squad members find themselves fighting deep in the Louisiana bayou. Then General Ulysses S. Grant himself entrusts Magdalys with a top-secret mission - one that the very success of the Union depends on. Because as the friends will soon find out, the United States has more than one enemy.

This novelette won the Hugo award in 1996 and has been hailed by many as a science-fiction classic. Intelligent dinosaurs from outer space offer humanity the chance to use their transporter technology to join the galactic culture, but at a terrible price. When a routine transport goes wrong, one man must face the consequences of becoming too much like an alien.

Six friends on a tourist trip to the Korean DMZ have their lives changed forever when they decide to step into a no-man’s-land. They soon discover that a border is not the only line they’ve crossed. A revealed secret between them causes bad blood to spill over, preventing the friends from cooperating. With the specter of capture by a totalitarian regime awaiting them should they stray too far off course, and with a pack of primordial predators roaming the woods, the travelers must find a way to set aside their differences if they are to avoid becoming political prisoners...or prey.

Stomp loves all of his boots, and he wishes he could use them all at once. When a rainstorm hits, Stomp finally gets his chance! Young listeners will delight in this sweet dinosaur story.

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