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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813.6 EAN: 9780981514833 ISBN: 0981514839 Label: Leapfrog Press Manufacturer: Leapfrog Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 304 Publication Date: September 01, 2008 Publisher: Leapfrog Press Studio: Leapfrog Press Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: A long-extinct beetle appears in a physics lab. Four-and-a-half people and a dog are hurled 65 million years through time, to the Age of the Dinosaurs, and paleontologist Julian Whitney and his companions have only one chance for rescue. Meanwhile in the lab, police chief Sharon Earles must solve the mystery of why half a body remains where five people had just been. Physicists try to determine what went wrong but can they fix the vault in time to retrieve the missing people—and do they want to? Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A Good Premise, But Ultimately a Dull ReadI really wanted to like this book. I never really outgrew my dinosaur phase, so any sci-fi having to do with dinosaurs catches me eye. The premise is interesting enough, but the writing is awful. The characters don't act or think like real people, and they're all so unintelligent. It's like something a high schooler would write. The authors are Ph.D.s, but they should probably stick to the sciences. I feel like they wrote this with the mindset that their readers don't know a thing about science, ... Read More Rating:  - Fantastic Read!I am just your average mostly stay at home mom. (work on weekends as a nurse) A friend had recommended the book. I bought it and absolutely loved it. It was very exciting and thrilling. I personally loved the main characters and bonded with them immediately. I loved the romance brewing between Yariko and Julian. The description of the Cretaceous period was absolutely amazing. I felt like I was there with them. It introduced me to a world long gone. I only had two gripes. 1. I didn't like the name ... Read More Rating: - Freak accident sends profs to dinosaur ageLet's start with the bottom line. Though I was once a great science fiction fan, in recent years, I have turned away from that genre almost completely in favor of classical literature, history, anthropology, and the odd book of another kind. If I were to rank CRETACEOUS DAWN alongside Balzac, Turgenev, Pamuk, or Kadare (to choose a few at random), I don't think I could give it many stars. That would be quite unfair, however. We'll have to rank the book within the single category of science fiction and ... Read More Rating:  - A carnivorous book!During a scientific experiment gone horribly wrong, a brave, wuvable German Sheperd named Hilda + 4 people are transported back to the Cretaceous period. The people are: Frank (a security guard with a knack for being a survivalist), Julian (a clumsy Paleontologist), Yariko (a lovely young Oriental physicist) and Dr. Shanker (a rather obnoxious physicist). They find themselves in an alien world full of scary dinosaurs, with one remote chance of finding their way back to the 21st century. There ... Read More Rating: - Time travel, dinosaurs, and adventure in a Golden Age-style page-turnerHarkening back to the action-filled classics of Golden Age science fiction, "Cretaceous Dawn" would have been at home as a serial in the pages of the pulp magazines. Part time travel, part horror story, part mystery, the novel has hints of old and new: of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells, of Bradbury & Leigh's Dinosaur World series and naturally of "Jurassic Park" (although the writing is much better than most of Crichton's downmarket fare), and even of the Saturday morning cult children's show, "Land of the Lost." ... Read More 
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