Henrietta Gray and her younger brother Tom have uncovered a fantastic secret in their father’s summerhouse. It is 1915, the children’s father is away fighting in the war their annoying cousins have bought a frightening motor car but Henrietta has discovered a time travelling machine that she is using to go back in time to the prehistoric periods of dinosaurs. Henrietta travels from 1915 back to the dawn of time. She visits the Precambrian, Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, even experiencing and witnessing the devastation of the apocalyptic moment in which the dinosaurs were wiped out, caused by the fall of a meteor

In her thrilling journal Henrietta describes each of the trips she takes and everything that she sees when she is there – from flora and fauna to insects and dinosaur, fights, habitats, diet, lifestyle and even anatomy almost every conceivable angle is covered. Henrietta is not a teenager with an over-active imagination but an accurate record keeper. Her diary becomes a journal and sketchbook in which she records, as accurately as she is able, the habits, habitats, movements and characteristics of some of the greatest animals to have ever lived on the earth.

The pre-historic world is brought terrifyingly to life fromhe sumptuous cover with its lenticular image, to the appealing illustration, sketched in pencil and embellished with splashes of watercolour.  . This fascinating journal will enthral fact fans, dinosaur fans and readers of 8+, This book perfectly combines fact with fiction and is the first in a promising new series.

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2008-07-08