Last laughs prehistoric epitaphs

Macabre, ironic, and witty epitaphs share how prehistoric creatures like the terror bird, the woolly mammoth, and the T-rex met their demise. The ever-entertaining J. Patrick Lewis and the inimitable Jane Yolen offer a collection organized by era, with posthumous poems paired with short secondary te...

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Main Authors: Lewis, J. Patrick (Author), Yolen, Jane (Author)
Other Authors: Timmins, Jeffrey Stewart (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, [2017]
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Table of Contents:
  • Trilobites the dust
  • Plesiosaur sticks his neck out
  • Pterrible pterosaur pterminated
  • Diplodocus has a lump in her throat
  • Allosaurus, rest in pieces
  • Iguanodon, alas long gone
  • Minmi moans in the Outback
  • SuperCroc plot
  • Why no Spinosaurus?
  • Too much velocity, Velociraptor
  • Troodon, a snaggletoothed youth
  • Tricera blew her top
  • Fossil fuel : Kol
  • Fooling with T. rex
  • Terror bird kicks the bucket
  • Basilosaurus : whale of a beast or beastly whale?
  • Scat, old saber-toothed cat
  • Crying (dire) wolf
  • Holy moly, woolly mammoth
  • Dinosaur doomstones
  • A little about layers.