Beasts From Before the Dinosaurs

Ben Lerwill is an award-winning travel writer and children's author based in Oxfordshire, England. Ben's writing has appeared in more than 50 national and international titles, including National Geographic Traveller, Wanderlust, Time Out, BBC Travel, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Observer, The Independent, BBC Countryfile and Rough Guides. His non-fiction children's books include One World Many Colours, WildLives, and Wild Cities. Gavin Scott was born in Wiltshire and raised in rural Dorset, UK. He was fascinated by the natural world from an early age and spent much of his childhood drawing and painting animals and birds. He later studied BA Natural History Illustration at Bournemouth Arts University. Working as an illustrator in-house for a number of years, honing his skills in character design, his style gradually evolved from scientific into children’s picture books. He now lives in Somerset with his wife, who is also an illustrator, and their growing family. When he’s not working, he loves rock climbing on the Dorset coast and riding and fettling his old Triumph motorbike.

• Featured creatures:Helicoprion Varanops Arthropleura Edaphosaurus Trilobite Moschops Lystrosaurus Eryops Gigantospongia Dimetrodon Diplocaulus Diictodon Meganeura Scutosaurus Coelurosauravus Inostrancevia Suminia Xenacanthus Cotylorhynchus Mesosaurus Bunostegos Eudibamus Prionosuchus

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