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Stick's 'N Stones 'N Dinosaur Bones


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No. of pages 48

Published: 2019

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The first book in the Unhinged History series is a ripping yarnafull of adventure and deceitathat brings to life the best-known public spat in all of paleontology: the bitter rivalry between Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh. This frenzy of discovery and one-upmanshipaknown today as the Bone Warsawas a gold rushalike scramble to find the most and "best" dinosaur fossils, thus bringing to glory to their respective home-base universities. Lively and witty rhymes plus wonderfully demented illustrations reveal how the paleontologists' infamous rivalry began, and howadespite making genuine and lasting contributions to the fieldatheir mutual obsession with outdoing one another spun out of control.

 

There are 48 pages in this book. This book was published 2019 by Schiffer Publishing Ltd .

Author Ted Enik has worked as an illustrator for most of the well-known New York publishing houses, applying his versatility to both original art as well as classic and current children's book characters. Once part of the favored stable of Magic School Bus artists, he is currently beavering away on a bunch of Seuss-inspired history and science books. Visit his website, tedenik. com. G. F. Newland, illustrator, has held a long and ponderous chain of odd jobs over the years, and some were quite horrible indeed, so to pass the time, he doodled. Many of these doodles have made their way into books and buttons and bags and posters and T-shirts, published by the likes of Scholastic and Hachette, and Pixel Mouse House, too. His favorite odd jobs to date include being a dad, working at the School of Visual Arts in NYC (where he got his master's in animation, and playing guitar in a power pop band called the (unrepentantly pop) Thigh Highs. Visit his website, gfnewland. com. As a veteran illustrator, Ted Enik has applied his versatility to original children's book art as well as popular characters. He recently switched hats and is now happily writing (and rhyming) up a storm. Illustrator/designer G. F. Newland has held a long chain of odd jobs over the years, and to pass the time he doodled. Some of them appear in this very book! Learn more about the aforementioned odd jobs and doodles here: www. gfnewland. com

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