How would you feel if you were being chased by something which you knew wanted to eat you? One warm summer morning, a towering dinosaur named Iguanodon was eating his morning meal of gingko leaves and ferns, while nearby Pelorosaurus grazes on low-lying leaves and a pterosaur glides overhead. However, another dinosaur is watching Iguanodon. It is Neovenator, a meat-eater. Just as it begins to darken, thunder, and rain, Neovenator starts chasing Iguanodon. Will Iguanodon be able to get away?
Children love learning about dinosaurs, so they will enjoy both Laura Gates Galvin’s exciting story and Thomas Buchs’s amazing full color illustrations. Did you know that Iguanodon, so named because of its resemblance to the iguana, was the second dinosaur to be given an official name in history—even before the word “dinosaur” itself was coined, or that being over twelve feet tall and thirty feet long it was one of the largest two-legged species of herbivores known? In addition to the page of facts about Iguanodon, Iguanodon Escapes, one of the “Prehistoric Pals” series from Soundprints and the Smithsonian which includes some twelve other titles, also contains a four-page, tear-out poster. Plus, there is an easy-to-download audiobook available at the publisher’s website. ( )