Encyclopedia Prehistorica: Sharks and Other Sea Monsters

Product Description

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water! Celebrate the New York Times best-selling 3-D look at prehistoric creatures of the deep.

While dinosaurs patrolled the lands, massive prehistoric sharks, giant scorpions, and colossal squid cruised the ancient oceans — most with just one thing in mind: eat or be eaten. Pop-up masters Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart explore the prehistoric underwater world where monsters like megalodon ruled the waves. Full of captivating facts and more than thirty-five breathtaking pop-ups, this incredible volume is sure to astonish and amaze everyone from budding marine biologists to confirmed landlubbers.

Top Reviews

I Love to Watch People Do Things Well
by Meta4 (5 out of 5 stars)
September 17, 2017

Flawless paper engineering in this book that engages the reader on every page! Sabuda's work both humbled me yet inspired me as now I make silly little pop-up cards that have become an expectation from family members and friends for all special occasions. I think to myself, "If Robert Sabuda can make a shark jump out of a book, then I can at least make a simple flower garden pop up card!" My little one and I marvel at the mechanics in this book, as well as others of his. Someday we might get to one of his big shows that I hear he does in New York from time to time.
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Jaw Dropping!
by KittyMac (5 out of 5 stars)
December 16, 2018

AWESOME! Each of the three in this series are 11/10, mind blowing gifts, for a child from about maybe 5 (or whenever you can trust them with fragile things) up to adults. I think it would be a great way for someone bedridden to pass the time. So many detailed popups, and so much informative writing, that it provides hours of amusement, just for the initial viewing, and can be enjoyed over & over too.

My advice is to order early and check every popup, in case you got a faulty one, though it sounds like that is very rare. We now have all 3 & had zero flaws in ours.

I don't know how they can offer something this amazing for such a low price. These books are worth three or four times what they cost! Excellent bang for your buck!

The only downside is that this will be the best gift you ever give the recipient, so next time you buy for them, there can only be disappointment, LOL! ;-)
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"Best gift ever"!
by Amy C. (5 out of 5 stars)
June 25, 2019

I got this as a gift for my manager's 6-year old son. He's told me it's the best *and* worst gift he's ever gotten - best because his son LOVES it, and worst because bedtime is hard since he never wants to stop reading it.

The popups are nothing short of breaktaking pieces of art - look for a video, pictures honestly don't do this justice. They're huge and there's just so much content on every page.

This is really a one-of-a-kind gift!
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Now that I have this ENCYCLOPEDIA PREHISTORICA SHARKS I have the FUN of enjoying ALL THREE Pop-up sp
by Jonhayashi1 (5 out of 5 stars)
March 27, 2014

The more Pop-up Sabuda Reinhardt books I collect, the more amazing they seem to become!! Their Encyclopedia series of pop-ups are just beautiful and incredible! Looking at all 3 PREHISTORICA books makes me think of the artistic awe that I always feel watching the Rite of Spring animation in the classic 1940 FANTASIA! That 70 year old hand drawn animation is far more fasinating for me then the cold and stupid JURASSIC PARK movie even though FANTASIA'S dinosaurs would be considered out of date today because of recent research! Besides the drama of survival and it's march to the death of the dieing dinosaurs, Rite Of Spring has gorgeous hand painted, hand drawn art made in the style of Charles M. Knight whose paintings of prehistoric life have been on display in the Natural History Museum in New York City for decades.

The pop-ups of all 3 PREHISTORICA ENCYCLOPEDIA books including SHARKS AND OTHER SEA MONSTERS are painted in a streamlined style that reminds me of FANTASIA'S dinosaurs and pleiosaurs. The first 2 page spread has a mini pop-up underneath a prehistoric lobster, that depicts early amphibians, fish and insects in the Paleozoic era before the Meseizoic age of dinosaurs! It even has a frosted plastic in front of the sea creatures to give the effect of being underwater! The next mini page shows pleiosaurs in the water and pteradactyls in the air of the dinosaur age and then the last pages depicted a huge megalodon shark attacking a whale! All this in just this little first pop-up!! WOW!! The next pages display a gigantic crocadile named sarccsuchus that wheighed more then 8 tons and is shown leaping out the water about to swallow an unlucky dino trying to get away!! As I pull open the pages the jaws of the giant gator are closing in on the pop-up dino! It made me think of the huge prehistoric fosselised gator skull in the Natural History museum I saw so many years ago!!

A smaller pop-up above the big one has a cameroseras squid that was 36 feet long and that made me think of recent film footage of a real giant squid that I saw on the tv news!! Like the DINOSAURS and MEGA BEAST pop-up books, there are plenty of surrprise pop-ups throughout this book! One reviewer said there is only one shark in this book but if you look at the megalodon shark head pop-up that is beautifully detailed with open pink inside jaws and shark teeth, there is a side pop-up pages that when you open it reveals 3 bizzarre exstict sharks, the helicoprion, the xenacanthus and the stethacanthus, all with strange shapes, teeth and weird fins that would scare the cast of JAWS out of their mind!!I love the choice of colour patterns on their swimming bodies! An undersea kronosaurus pop-up skeleton in swimming position swims in the middle of the next pages!

The bone ribbed pop-ups of prehistoric animals in these books are so cool! A pop-up porpoise like ichthyosaur is in the top right pop-up on this page representing fish reptiles! Long Necked sea lizards such as pleiosaurs, mosasaurs and long necked elasmasaurus are rendered in shades of red and blues as they pop-up out of the sea pages in violent action! And a lower horizontal pop-up opens up to reveal a red shelled giant turtle called archelon who weighed more then 10,000 pounds!! Writing this review has been real educational for me and I'm in my 50s! So this book is truly informative and great for all ages! Highly recommended!!
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5 and 8 year old both love this
by luckymommy (5 out of 5 stars)
March 30, 2019

My 2, 5 and 8 years old, both love this book. It's full of interesting information and soooooo many fun flaps! The pop-ups are amazing. They're so varied and unique. They have a big one in the middle of the pages that jumps way out and many extra smaller ones on each page that are like little mini books, the wonder just keeps coming. My 8yr old likes to look these by himself and show people who come over! The text does jump around a bit but that's the nature of the style and although it makes it a bit strange for reading aloud, it's ok. We have several now and this one is great.
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An "event" hidden inside a book!
by Patrick B. (5 out of 5 stars)
April 8, 2018

Yet another magnificent book (I should say "event"!) by Sabuda. Within most pages there are even more "little pages" to open- sometimes as many as three additional ones.

We bought this for my six year old grandson (for Valentine's day) who was enthralled.

Great purchase.
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Best ever!
by Phyllis E. (5 out of 5 stars)
September 19, 2018

I bought this as the second in a series of pop-up books for a young nephew. The first one by this author was dazzling! Even the adults fought over it. Now this one done around sea creatures is every bit as good. I cannot wait to give this gift. I would open the pages and just back off because it was so realistic. Excellent book for kids and also for adults who want to look like a kid again.
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So worth buying for any kid any age
by Hannah Hong (5 out of 5 stars)
October 4, 2018

I was a bit hesitant to buy a book at this price, but I'm so glad I did. My whole family and I enjoy and admire all the details and the amount of effort that was put into making this book. My son is a bit young to handle the pages himself but he loves opening and closing all the pop up pictures and is always asking us to read it to him. Totally encourage everyone to purchase this book!!! We'll be treasuring this bookfor a long long time.
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AMAZING!
by michelle (5 out of 5 stars)
November 13, 2018

AMAZING BOOK that brings the story and creatures to life! They literally jump off the pages. I just purchased my second one for my 5 year old son. He owns dinosaurs prehistorica and this one about prehistoric ocean and sea creatures. Beyond creative. I would definitely recommend. Would love to see one about dragons.
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Great popups but the dinosaur book was better
by Don (4 out of 5 stars)
April 3, 2019

We first bought the dino popup book from this author for our daughter and she loved it. The popups were remarkable and the book was great. This one kind of lacked focus. It not only covers sharks but also other animals. I would have much preferred it to be just different types of sharks.

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