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Big Babies
  • Published: 24 February 2027
  • ISBN: 9781623548261
  • Imprint: Charlesbridge Children
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 32
  • RRP: $26.00

Big Babies

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Paperback
24 Feb 2027
EBook
23 Jan 2024
Hardback
7 May 2024
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Now in paperback! For dinosaur lovers and fans of Prehistoric Actual Size, this playful nonfiction reveals how even the biggest dinos started out surprisingly small.

An eye-catching early nonfiction book that compares baby dinosaurs to familiar objects, making prehistoric facts accessible, surprising, and irresistible for young readers.

How big (or small) was your favorite dinosaur–as a baby? We see how some stack up, alongside childhood favorites such as a toy truck or a rubber duck. Did you know that T. rex hatchlings were only about the size of a turkey? Or that the huge, long-necked brontosaurus are said to be only eleven pounds at birth? 

In this early picture book, young readers learn that before dinos grew to be large and powerful, they started off as something much smaller to behold.
  • Published: 24 February 2027
  • ISBN: 9781623548261
  • Imprint: Charlesbridge Children
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 32
  • RRP: $26.00
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Praise for Big Babies

Praise for Big Babies:

  • "This elementary but eminently entertaining approach will have young readers considering prehistoric animals in an entirely different light."—Booklist
  • "Budding dino-fans will find silhouettes of the babies lined up on a comparative size chart."—Kirkus Reviews
  • "Skillful artistic renderings and a whole lot of imagination to playfully explore what dinosaurs might have looked like before they became the fearsome, grown-up behemoths of prehistoric times."—Shelf Awareness

Praise for Captain Raptor and the Perilous Planet:
  • “Kudos to this prehistoric Buzz Lightyear.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review
  • “An action-packed science-fiction romp . . . this story blends eye-catching layout with a quick-moving plot, tongue-in-cheek humor.”—School Library Journal, starred review

Praise for Gigantic: How Big Were the Dinosaurs?:
  • “The simplicity of the text and the clarity of these examples . . . will make this book popular with even the youngest dinosaur fans. It succeeds in conveying a sense of size across the millennia."—School Library Journal