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MEET DIPPY: Dippy is a Diplodocus (DIP-low-DOCK-us). Dippy was the first of its kind to go on display anywhere in the world when it arrived at the Museum more than a hundred years ago. Since then, Dippy has adventured across the length and breadth of the country.MEET WATERHOUSE: Waterhouse the Mouse lives in the Museum and thought he knew about everything within its famous walls. Until one day he meets a gigantic bony stranger and a big booming voice...When railroad workers unearthed the fossilised bones of a Diplodocus in Wyoming, USA in 1899, newspapers billed the discovery as the ‘most colossal animal ever on Earth’.Dippy, a replica of this famous skeleton, first arrived in London in 1905, and for many years served as an awe-inspiring welcome for visitors to the Natural History Museum.This book answers all your questions about the nation’s favourite dinosaur and will delight young readers with its imaginative illustrations.

There’s a new visitor at the Natural History Museum in London. Titanosaur has travelled across the Atlantic from its home in Patagonia, Argentina. Its incredible size feels almost unbelievable, its legs alone dwarfing the tallest of humans.David Mackintosh’s illustrations bring the mystery of this giant dinosaur to life in an imaginative and amusing hide-and-seek story. And with awe-inspiring facts about this colossal creature, Titanosaur gives young readers a new appreciation of the scale andwonder of the natural world.