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Encyclopedia Prehistorica: Sharks and Other Sea Monsters

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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.


Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Grade 1-5–This companion to Encyclopedia Prehistorica: Dinosaurs (Candlewick, 2005) uses equally amazing pop-up illustrations to introduce a fascinating array of ancient sea creatures. From the creepy-crawly invertebrates of the Paleozoic Era to the toothy reptiles of the Mesozoic to the mammoth mammals of the Cenozoic, the enjoyably chatty text offers brief sketches of the changing environment and its inhabitants. The colorful spreads feature large, often breathtaking paper-engineered renderings of prehistoric species, supplemented by smaller, booklike foldouts that provide additional information along with more visual fireworks. Readers will meet a feisty pterygotus (a lobster look-alike that grew to seven feet), an eight-ton sarcosuchus (a crocodilian with a horrendous overbite, and…nearly 100 teeth, some the size of railroad spikes!), and a massive megalodon (a shark ancestor with jaws that could open wide enough to swallow a hippopotamus whole). Spectacular effects include a three-dimensional kronosaurus skeleton with intricately sculpted vertebrae, tinted plastic inserts that evoke murky underwater scenes, and an action-packed, pop-up battle between two long-necked behemoths. There is not much detail here, but the authors do include amusing tidbits about outlandish fossil hunters and references to legendary monsters (Kraken, giant sea snakes, etc). Fun from cover to cover, this attention-grabbing offering will captivate readers, despite its delicate structure and limited shelf life.–Joy Fleishhacker, School Library Journal
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

From Booklist

Gr. 1-3. The focus of this second entry in the Encyclopedia Prehistorica series of pop-up informational books, which began with Dinosaurs (2005), is not as narrow as the title suggests. An overview of the Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic eras starts things off, and the lively facts about high-profile predators (a massive megalodon could "swallow a hippopotamus whole") are interspersed with information about not particularly monstrous creatures and sidebars about paleontological research. The pops, however, are the main event. On one spread, a gape-mouthed shark plunges toward unsuspecting readers; on another, frosted plastic mimics the ocean's surface. Gatefolds and inset minibooks expand the capacity of the book's seven spreads. Unfortunately, the paper sculptures occasionally obscure the text or catch on the booklets' pages, the artwork often lacks identifying captions, and some of the creatures are introduced without referencing their proper time period. But even if children find the details difficult to synthesize, the sheer wonder generated by the collaborators' dimensional sleight-of-hand will more than justify purchase. Jennifer Mattson
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved

Reviews:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must buy

S. · October 25, 2025

My son loves this book. It’s worth the money.

5.0 out of 5 stars Well made and fun to all ages

C. · September 30, 2025

I bought this for my grandkids, but found my grown kids just as into. Well made and fun to all ages!

5.0 out of 5 stars Such a Cool Book

E. · September 24, 2025

This book is so cool! The pop up images are amazing, so much great information and colors. Made very well, think quality paper. Highly Recommend this!

5.0 out of 5 stars The new coffee table book

D. · August 23, 2025

These are INCREDIBLE. Pay the price. It's worth it. It's not just a pop up here and there, there's pop-ups hidden and it's a great interactive experience for ALL age groups.

5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible Reaction

N. · August 25, 2025

A most incredible reaction from a 4 year old that loves sharks and monsters.

5.0 out of 5 stars With this book, parental help will insure a working bookfor a long time!

R.R.E. · August 8, 2025

Truly scary to a 2 1/2 year-old who kept coming back for more!

5.0 out of 5 stars Now that I have this ENCYCLOPEDIA PREHISTORICA SHARKS I have the FUN of enjoying ALL THREE Pop-up spectacles!!!

J. · March 28, 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!!

5.0 out of 5 stars Must have!

N.T. · July 23, 2025

I love all these books by Robert Sabuda! They’re informative and interactive! Any kid who loves to read needs these in their library!

En iyi ingilizce Pop up kitabı

A. · October 5, 2021

Bu kitap bir harika 😁 İçindeki onlarca pop up bizi başka yerlere götürüyor. İngilizce bir kitabı bu fiyata bulmak bizi çok mutlu etti. Serinin diğer dinazorla ilgili kitabına da sahibiz koleksiyon tamamdır. İçindeki pop uplardan biri yırtılmıştı tam açılmıyordu ama bunun Bolola bir alakası yok, çünkü çok fazla açılır figür var, ufak bir tamirle iade etmeden kalmasını istedim. Teşekkürler Bolo ❤️

Sharks

K. · January 4, 2020

My nephew loved it!

Science and stunning pop ups!

S.W. · October 11, 2025

Beautiful book with incredibly colorful, complex pop ups. I bought this for my 6 year old grandson, who loves science and pop ups. Win, win. We spent a couple of hours looking through the book and it surprises me how many pop ups there are and resting the scientific facts out loud. And that night, he wanted to look at it again. Also, the first one arrived with a ripped pop I p (they are very fragile) and the seller replaced it the very next day. Highly recommend if your little gremlins love science and pop up books.

Fantasticy

A. · March 5, 2020

È stupendo! I pop up sono magnifici e la descrizione è fatta molto bene

Originalidad en libro

T.L. · March 15, 2021

Una pasada! Sin duda la mejor manera para que los más pequeños de la casa aprenda divirtiéndose. No es el típico libro, ni va a la moda de ser todo en tableta. Es un buen recuerdo hasta para los mayores de la casa. Ocupa poco espacio y se pliega bien, recomiendo. Yo he empezado ahora la colección, el inconveniente que son en inglés.

Encyclopedia Prehistorica: Sharks and Other Sea Monsters

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Encyclopedia Prehistorica: Sharks and Other Sea Monsters

Product ID: U076362229K
Condition: New

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Type: Hardcover

AED19432

Price includes VAT & Import Duties
Availability: In Stock

Quantity:

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Order today to get by 7-14 business days

Delivery fee of AED 20. Free for orders above AED 200.

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Imported From: United States

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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.


Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Grade 1-5–This companion to Encyclopedia Prehistorica: Dinosaurs (Candlewick, 2005) uses equally amazing pop-up illustrations to introduce a fascinating array of ancient sea creatures. From the creepy-crawly invertebrates of the Paleozoic Era to the toothy reptiles of the Mesozoic to the mammoth mammals of the Cenozoic, the enjoyably chatty text offers brief sketches of the changing environment and its inhabitants. The colorful spreads feature large, often breathtaking paper-engineered renderings of prehistoric species, supplemented by smaller, booklike foldouts that provide additional information along with more visual fireworks. Readers will meet a feisty pterygotus (a lobster look-alike that grew to seven feet), an eight-ton sarcosuchus (a crocodilian with a horrendous overbite, and…nearly 100 teeth, some the size of railroad spikes!), and a massive megalodon (a shark ancestor with jaws that could open wide enough to swallow a hippopotamus whole). Spectacular effects include a three-dimensional kronosaurus skeleton with intricately sculpted vertebrae, tinted plastic inserts that evoke murky underwater scenes, and an action-packed, pop-up battle between two long-necked behemoths. There is not much detail here, but the authors do include amusing tidbits about outlandish fossil hunters and references to legendary monsters (Kraken, giant sea snakes, etc). Fun from cover to cover, this attention-grabbing offering will captivate readers, despite its delicate structure and limited shelf life.–Joy Fleishhacker, School Library Journal
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

From Booklist

Gr. 1-3. The focus of this second entry in the Encyclopedia Prehistorica series of pop-up informational books, which began with Dinosaurs (2005), is not as narrow as the title suggests. An overview of the Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic eras starts things off, and the lively facts about high-profile predators (a massive megalodon could "swallow a hippopotamus whole") are interspersed with information about not particularly monstrous creatures and sidebars about paleontological research. The pops, however, are the main event. On one spread, a gape-mouthed shark plunges toward unsuspecting readers; on another, frosted plastic mimics the ocean's surface. Gatefolds and inset minibooks expand the capacity of the book's seven spreads. Unfortunately, the paper sculptures occasionally obscure the text or catch on the booklets' pages, the artwork often lacks identifying captions, and some of the creatures are introduced without referencing their proper time period. But even if children find the details difficult to synthesize, the sheer wonder generated by the collaborators' dimensional sleight-of-hand will more than justify purchase. Jennifer Mattson
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved

Reviews:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must buy

S. · October 25, 2025

My son loves this book. It’s worth the money.

5.0 out of 5 stars Well made and fun to all ages

C. · September 30, 2025

I bought this for my grandkids, but found my grown kids just as into. Well made and fun to all ages!

5.0 out of 5 stars Such a Cool Book

E. · September 24, 2025

This book is so cool! The pop up images are amazing, so much great information and colors. Made very well, think quality paper. Highly Recommend this!

5.0 out of 5 stars The new coffee table book

D. · August 23, 2025

These are INCREDIBLE. Pay the price. It's worth it. It's not just a pop up here and there, there's pop-ups hidden and it's a great interactive experience for ALL age groups.

5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible Reaction

N. · August 25, 2025

A most incredible reaction from a 4 year old that loves sharks and monsters.

5.0 out of 5 stars With this book, parental help will insure a working bookfor a long time!

R.R.E. · August 8, 2025

Truly scary to a 2 1/2 year-old who kept coming back for more!

5.0 out of 5 stars Now that I have this ENCYCLOPEDIA PREHISTORICA SHARKS I have the FUN of enjoying ALL THREE Pop-up spectacles!!!

J. · March 28, 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!!

5.0 out of 5 stars Must have!

N.T. · July 23, 2025

I love all these books by Robert Sabuda! They’re informative and interactive! Any kid who loves to read needs these in their library!

En iyi ingilizce Pop up kitabı

A. · October 5, 2021

Bu kitap bir harika 😁 İçindeki onlarca pop up bizi başka yerlere götürüyor. İngilizce bir kitabı bu fiyata bulmak bizi çok mutlu etti. Serinin diğer dinazorla ilgili kitabına da sahibiz koleksiyon tamamdır. İçindeki pop uplardan biri yırtılmıştı tam açılmıyordu ama bunun Bolola bir alakası yok, çünkü çok fazla açılır figür var, ufak bir tamirle iade etmeden kalmasını istedim. Teşekkürler Bolo ❤️

Sharks

K. · January 4, 2020

My nephew loved it!

Science and stunning pop ups!

S.W. · October 11, 2025

Beautiful book with incredibly colorful, complex pop ups. I bought this for my 6 year old grandson, who loves science and pop ups. Win, win. We spent a couple of hours looking through the book and it surprises me how many pop ups there are and resting the scientific facts out loud. And that night, he wanted to look at it again. Also, the first one arrived with a ripped pop I p (they are very fragile) and the seller replaced it the very next day. Highly recommend if your little gremlins love science and pop up books.

Fantasticy

A. · March 5, 2020

È stupendo! I pop up sono magnifici e la descrizione è fatta molto bene

Originalidad en libro

T.L. · March 15, 2021

Una pasada! Sin duda la mejor manera para que los más pequeños de la casa aprenda divirtiéndose. No es el típico libro, ni va a la moda de ser todo en tableta. Es un buen recuerdo hasta para los mayores de la casa. Ocupa poco espacio y se pliega bien, recomiendo. Yo he empezado ahora la colección, el inconveniente que son en inglés.

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