Dinosaurs Don't Die
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Dinosaurs Don't Die is a children's book, written by Ann Coates and illustrated by John Vernon Lord. It tells the story of a young boy, Daniel, who lives opposite the Sydenham Hill park in South London where the Crystal Palace was moved after the Great Exhibition. At night the boy notices that some of the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs, models created by sculptor Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, come to life. He befriends an Iguanodon whom he names "Rock".
[edit] Verisimilitude
Hawkins' models of the Iguanodon mistakenly portray the large thumb spike as a nose horn; also, the dinosaurs are shown as quadrupeds rather than bipeds and these mistakes are faithfully reproduced in the book. The book is no longer in print.
[edit] References
- Ann Coates (1975). Dinosaurs Don't Die. Viking Children's Books, 72. ISBN 0722657579.
- John Vernon Lord. The Giant Jam Sandwich Lecture. Retrieved on 05 April 2007.
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