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SILVER DOLPHIN BOOKS ANNOUNCES NEW TITLE ADDITION TO POPULAR TOTALLY ACTIVITY BOOK SERIES
TOTALLY PREHISTORIC BEASTS
Much-Anticipated New Title Joins Best Selling Family of Interactive 'Build-Your-Own' Kits
For Immediate Release:
SILVER DOLPHIN BOOKS
ANNOUNCES NEW TITLE ADDITION TO
POPULAR TOTALLY ACTIVITY BOOK SERIES
TOTALLY PREHISTORIC BEASTS
Much-Anticipated New Title
Joins Best Selling Family of Interactive 'Build-Your-Own' Kits
San Diego, CA -- March 10, 2003 -- Silver Dolphin Books, a leading publisher of quality, innovative, interactive and educational childrens books, announced today the Spring 2003 plans to release Totally Prehistoric Beasts - a new title addition to its phenomenally popular Totally series of build-your-own learning kits. Highly educational and entertaining, Totally Prehistoric Beasts is scheduled to debut at retail in March 2003.
Totally fun, totally imaginative, and totally engaging, the newest title in Silver Dolphin's best-selling Totally series, Totally Prehistoric Beasts combines mix-and-match pieces with full-color illustrations, and entertaining and educational text by Dennis Schatz, an internationally renowned science educator and the Associate Director of the Pacific Science Center -- a world class scientific learning center for kids in Seattle. This captivating activity-based book will provide children with the opportunity to learn as they take part in the world of creatures of the past. Totally Prehistoric Beasts is the fifth title in the series, with earlier titles including Totally Aliens, Totally Dinosaurs, Totally Bugs and Totally Reptiles.
Utilizing a hands-on approach that encourages imagination as well as factual learning, Totally Prehistoric Beasts describes life after the demise of the dinosaurs, when prehistoric creatures roamed the Earth for 65 million years. Totally Prehistoric Beasts will help broaden kids understanding of prehistoric times with its 32-page book and snap together parts that build five different prehistoric beasts: Gastritis, Entelodonts, Doedicurus, Smilodon, and Woolly Mammoth. Easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions guide readers through the building process that lets kids build actual prehistoric beasts or creatures of their own creative design with the more than 30 included interchangeable plastic parts! (MSRP $16.95, ages 8 to 12, hardcover, 8 ¾" x 11 ¼", 32 pages with full-color illustrations throughout)
The perfect gift idea for the holidays or any occasion, Silver Dolphin's Totally Reptiles will be available wherever fine books are sold, including Barnes & Noble, Borders, B. Dalton, and The Nature Company, in March 2003.
Existing Totally Series Titles:
Totally Reptiles: provides more than 30 sturdy plastic pieces that let kids build five species of reptiles or imaginary ones of their own design. This dynamic new title will lead kids on a thrilling hisss-tory lesson on some of the worlds most ancient animals including the Galapagos Turtle, King Cobra, Alligator, Green Iguana, and Chameleon. Chock-full of interesting facts and pictures, Totally Reptiles explains the chameleons unique ability to change colors in a short period of time and what the different colors reveal, the differences between cold-blooded and warm-blooded animals, and how many reptiles are becoming extinct due to loss of their habitat. (MSRP $15.95, ages 8 to 12, hardcover, 8 ¾" x 11 ¼", 32 pages with full-color illustrations throughout)
Totally Aliens: Kids can explore outer space, learn about life and the harsh conditions found on other planets, analyze examples of UFO sightings and get a close encounter with extraterrestrial beings" in this out-of-this-world book that will lead them on a thrilling rocket ride into space. Probing the outer limits of the universe, kids are transported in spaceships into three totally different types of atmospheres, seeing first-hand the amazing differences between earth's atmosphere, high gravity, and low gravity. Utilizing the hands-on approach that encourages imagination as well as factual learning, Totally Aliens provides more than 40 different sturdy plastic pieces to mix and match in forming five space creatures designed to live on four different planets, and kids can also create extraterrestrial beings from their own imagination. (MSRP $15.95, ages 8-12, hardcover, 8 ¾ x 11 1/8", 32 pages with full color illustrations throughout)
Totally Dinosaurs: A fascinating book that describes what life was like in the days of the dinosaurs and offers children a hands-on approach to learning about these incredible creatures of the past, Totally Dinosaurs includes an engaging and graphically dynamic 32-page instruction book and more than 30 mix-and-match pieces that let them assemble five different dinosaur skeletons, or even create one of their own design! Featuring easy to follow, step-by-step instructions, and a bone map to help children identify individual pieces, every page has full-color illustrations, interesting facts, and statistics about all types of dinosaurs. (MSRP $16.95, ages 8-12, hardcover, 8 ¾ x 11 1/8", 32 pages with full color illustrations throughout)
Totally Bugs: Featuring a 32-page book and more than 40 bug pieces, Totally Bugs is an innovative activity book that encourages kids to learn as they make real bugs or use their imaginations to invent their very own new bug species. Children will have fun learning the answers to such questions as what bugs eat, why bugs are necessary for humans to survive, and what the difference is between a bug and an insect. Each page is filled with brightly colored illustrations accompanied by informative and easy-to-understand text. (MSRP $15.95, ages 8-12, hardcover, 8 ¾ x7" x 11 1/8", 32 pages with full color illustrations throughout)
About Silver Dolphin Books:
San Diego, California based Silver Dolphin Books is the juvenile imprint of Advantage Publishers Group. Other Advantage Publishers Group imprints include Portable Press (Uncle Johns Bathroom Reader series), Thunder Bay Press (promotional) and Laurel Glen Publishing (elegant illustrated non-fiction). Offering value-priced quality product, Silver Dolphin Books publishes novelty and educational, nonfiction books featuring bold, colorful, and striking titles that appeal to children and parents alike. Ranging from licensed character books to how-to and activity books for preschoolers through pre-teens, Silver Dolphin Books engage, enlighten, and entertain.
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PRESS CONTACTS:
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New York City
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