{"id":654,"date":"2019-07-23T14:16:12","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T06:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pnso.org\/?p=654"},"modified":"2019-07-24T13:32:22","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T05:32:22","slug":"them-the-age-of-dinosaurs-officially-published-in-french-and-italian-pnso-scientific-art-meets-french-and-italian-speaking-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pnso.org\/?p=654","title":{"rendered":"Them: The Age of Dinosaurs Officially Published in French and Italian PNSO Scientific Art Meets French- and Italian-speaking Readers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The French and Italian versions of Them: The Age of Dinosaurs<\/em>(French: NOUS DINOSAURES<\/em>; Italian: NOI DINOSAURI\u00a0<\/em>), ZHAO Chuang and YANG Yang’s classic scientific art work, has been officially published in July 2019, meeting French- and Italian-speaking readers for the first time.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Them: The Age of Dinosaurs Chinese Version Published by Yunnan Fine Arts Publishing House. 2018.7<\/p><\/div>\n

The two versions of Them: The Age of Dinosaurs<\/em>were licensed to and published by NuiNui, a Swiss Publishing House. Cristiano Dal Sas<\/span>so<\/span>, <\/span>\u00a0paleontologist of Milan Natural History Museum<\/span>and an expert on Mesozoic vertebrates,<\/span>edited the book and wrote the introduction, in which he said, “Through Zhao Chuang\u2019s captivating illustrations and Yang Yang\u2019s text contributions, dinosaur enthusiasts the world over will now be introduced to a whole suite of ‘new\u2019 dinosaurs, those that have only recently been discovered. . . Reconstruction is by no means a pure exercise in artistry. There exists a scientific basis for this.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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The French and Italian versions have gained widespread attention. A well-known French bookstore chain has ordered the French version in mass, with additional print runs being requested. NuiNui will bring more of PNSO\u2019s works to French and Italian readers. In 2020, NuiNui will publish Them: The Age of Sea Monsters<\/em>, PNSO Children’s Encyclopedia: The Secrets of Sea Monsters<\/em>, and PNSO Dinosaur Museum: Large Carnivorous Dinosaurs<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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NOUS DINOSAURES<\/p><\/div>\n

NOI DINOSAURI<\/p><\/div>\n

PREFACE<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n

by Cristiano Dal Sasso<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n

(Translated by Vali Tamm)<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n

Cristiano Dal Sasso is a paleontologist with the Natural History Museum of Milan whose field of expertise is the study of fossil reptiles. His research on dinosaurs from Italy and Africa has appeared in such prestigious international science journals as Nature, Scienceand PeerJ.<\/p>\n

There comes a certain point during a child\u2019s development when their interest in dinosaurs is so strong that it becomes all-consuming, so much so, in fact, that they will compete with one another to see who can roll the names of the most species off their tongues, even when you\u2019d think such long and complicated genus names would be barely pronounceable, let alone that one might commit them to memory. On the contrary, instead of holding back these young sponges of knowledge, this complex nomenclature system only adds fuel to their fire. The binomial names, with their prosaic Latin timbre are clearly as fascinating to children as is the colossal appearance of the dinosaurs themselves: they soundprehistoric. With this youthful lot as the target audience, then, the publisher has deliberately chosen to present the dinosaurs using their scientific names in lieu of the common ones.<\/p>\n

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A una certa et\u00e0, tra i bambini, la passione per i dinosauri \u00e8 quasi una malattia. Ed \u00e8 anche molto contagiosa, perch\u00e9 si fa a gara per dimostrare di conoscere quante pi\u00f9 specie possibili, anche se certi nomi lunghi e complicati sembrerebbero quasi impronunciabili. Invece no, nemmeno questo frena i \u201ccuccioli di uomo\u201d, anzi fa parte della sfida. I nomi scientifici, con la loro assonanza latina, evidentemente sono affascinanti tanto quanto l\u2019aspetto stesso dei dinosauri. Sanno di \u201cpreistorico\u201d. E cos\u00ec in questo libro, pensato per i pi\u00f9 giovani, l\u2019editore ha volutamente conservato i nomi scientifici dei dinosauri, senza tradurli in italiano. Inoltre, grazie alle bellissime illustrazioni di Zhao Chuang e ai testi di Yang Yang, gli appassionati potranno conoscere un sacco di dinosauri \u201cnuovi\u201d, cio\u00e8 quelli scoperti negli ultimi anni. Pensate che alcuni di essi, trovati in Cina, prima d\u2019ora non sono mai comparsi in nessun altro libro! Qui poi troverete non solo dinosauri con pelle squamosa, ma anche specie ornate di lunghe setole e altre che esibiscono colori sgargianti: un \u201clook\u201d da pavoni e pappagalli, ben diverso da quello dei rettili moderni. Infatti, grazie al ritrovamento dei primi dinosauri pennuti, avvenuto nel 1996 nella provincia di Liaoning, oggi sappiamo che alcuni dinosauri teropodi (carnivori bipedi) svilupparono piume e penne, con le quali impararono a volare, per trasformarsi in quei graziosi animaletti cinguettanti che noi chiamiamo uccelli. E questo avvenne molto tempo prima della fatale catastrofe che 65 milioni di anni fa cancell\u00f2 tutti gli altri dinosauri dalla faccia della Terra. Quindi possiamo dire che non tutti i dinosauri sono scomparsi, ma sono ancora tra noi, seppur molto trasformati e \u2013 per fortuna \u2013 non cos\u00ec pericolosi come lo erano una volta. Naturalmente, oltre a questa storia, molte altre sono narrate qui. Con un linguaggio volutamente umanizzato, al fine di coinvolgere i nostri piccoli lettori nelle vicende di ogni specie e far comprendere in modo semplice che anche in un passato molto lontano gli animali dovevano affrontare problemi non tanto diversi dai nostri. Buona avventura a tutti!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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