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A
letter from Scott Ciencin
Dear Readers,
If you're like me, you love dinosaurs. Maybe you've also imagined
what it would be like to look through their eyes and listen through
their ears. With the help of paleontologist Dr. Thomas R. Holtz,
Jr., who you may have seen on the critically-acclaimed television
program Walking With Dinosaurs, I was able to take a journey
back in time to live (and have a great deal of fun!) with these
amazing creatures.
Unlike the students in DINOVERSE,
I didn't have a time machine to zap my mind back in time and into
the body of a dinosaur, so I did the next best thing. I read as
much about dinosaurs as I could. What I learned about how they lived,
what they ate, and what their world was like I placed in this series
of adventures.
These books are about a lot more than dinosaurs, though. What I
knew about people and how they react when they're lost in a strange
place and forced to strike up unlikely friendships and alliances
I also placed in these stories.
Those relationships are at the heart of these books. If you want
to know what it's like to have the guy who was too cool to speak
to you in the halls begging you to protect him from rampaging predators
because you're in the body of a fierce spike-tailed Ankylosaurus
and he's a two-foot hopping Compsognathus, then you've come
to the right place!
Or maybe you'd like to see what happens when the girl who was always
so shy and fragile is placed in the body of the biggest, baddest
dinosaur of all time? Or when the school's most frightening bully
becomes a defenseless plant-eating longneck?
In the DINOVERSE
series of books, you will be taken to Montana, 67 million years
ago, and feel what it was like to be one of the T. rexes who ruled
the day. You will see Texas 112 million years ago and run with the
wildest pack of raptors you'd ever want to find.
You will go to California 150 million years ago and play with an
Archaeopteryx on the edge of a fiery volcano. And beyond
the fires and floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, T. rex
attacks and underwater dangers, you will find friendships that will
literally last forever.
Enjoy!
Scott Ciencin
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