Shalvit Kids TV Magazine — Issue 23: Dinosaurs Long Ago

**How do we know about dinosaurs if nobody ever saw one? Their bones turned to stone — and the stone clues stayed behind for us to find!** 🦴

Welcome to **Issue 23 of the Shalvit Kids TV Magazine** — a giant **135-page** month of stories, songs and smiles, all about **DINOSAURS LONG AGO**, told honestly for little children: dinosaurs lived **long, long ago, before any people** — and in this issue the cast only ever meet them as museum skeletons, museum models, and one gentle, clearly-framed dream. Kiki, Bibo, Lulu and Pip stand under a giant skeleton at the Museum of Very Big Bones, measure themselves against a footprint bigger than all of them, count Triceratops' three horns, giggle at a T. rex model's tiny arms, make their own salt-dough fossil prints, and finish by meeting **today's giants — the African elephants of Yankari, right here in Nigeria!**

🦕 **What's inside (135 pages!):**

- **The Museum of Very Big Bones** — a 26-page book-length hero story: a museum day of very big bones, with the honest refrain *"Long, long ago — before any people!"*

- **Lulu's Dinosaur Dream** — an 18-page second story: a gentle dream, clearly framed as a dream (star pyjamas at the night break), where Lulu watches gentle plant-eaters from far away, then wakes and draws them

- **Bible Story Time: God Made the Great Creatures (Genesis 1:20–25)** — Day 5's great sea creatures and Day 6's animals at giant scale: *"God made creatures of every size!"* (cast as presenters only; God shown as golden light only)

- **Feelings Corner: Feeling Brave About Big Things** — big can be gentle, models cannot move, grown-ups stay near, and brave steps every child can practise

- **Sing With Us** — **"Long, Long Ago"** with full lyrics and dance actions, plus the counting rhyme *"Three Little Horns"*

- **Learning Lab — the Dinosaur Truth Lab** — every fact true and checked: **Triceratops has exactly 3 horns · T. rex was a meat-eater with tiny arms · Brachiosaurus was a long-neck plant-eater about 26 metres long — longer than a bus! · Stegosaurus had plates on its back · Pteranodon was a flying reptile, NOT a dinosaur · fossils are stone clues** — plus the special **Measure-a-Dinosaur wall chart** and **Kiki Asks Why?** *"How do we know about dinosaurs if nobody saw one?"*

- **Count & Find** — the dig site: count **6 giant footprints** and **4 eggs in a nest** (every count drawn, numbered and verified), plus fossil bones, leaves, stars and brushes

- **Puzzle Pages** — two solver-verified mazes, spot-the-difference, dinosaur shadows, dot-to-dot, pairs puzzles and the Big Quiz of the Issue — **with a full answer key at the back**

- **Jokes & Giggles** — clean, gentle dinosaur jokes plus a *That's Silly!* spot-what's-wrong page

- **Colour & Create** — 4 colouring pages, **2 colour-by-number pages** and 2 draw-it-yourself pages

- **Make It** — **salt-dough fossil prints**, step by step (children mix cold and press; the baking is clearly marked as a **grown-up step**)

- **Yummy Corner** — **dinosaur-footprint toast** under the full kitchen-safety lock (hands washed first; grown-ups toast and cut; children stamp the cooled toast and count its 3 toes)

- **Our Nigeria** — **Today's Giants: the Elephants of Yankari** — the biggest land animals alive today live in our own country!

- **Parent Pages + Full Answer Key** — what your child learned, how to play the pages together, a gentle note on honest science for little children, and every answer, cross-checked

🎓 **What your child will learn:**

- 🦖 Real dinosaur facts, told honestly — long ago, before any people; stone-clue fossils; plant-eaters and meat-eaters

- 🔢 Counting with exact, numbered, verified quantities — and honest measuring (a Brachiosaurus is longer than a bus!)

- 💛 Brave feelings about big things — and the difference between true, pretend, models and dreams

- 🧼 Kitchen and craft safety for life — handwashing first, grown-ups for hot and sharp

- 📖 A gentle Bible story with a one-line lesson that lasts: *"God made creatures of every size!"*

- 🇳🇬 Pride in Nigeria's own living giants — the elephants of Yankari

📖 **Issue details:**

- **135 pages** of colourful artwork featuring the much-loved Shalvit Kids TV cast — Kiki, Bibo, Lulu and Pip

- Ages **2–6** — toddlers, preschool and nursery; made for reading aloud together

- **PDF — instant download** after payment; read on any phone, tablet or computer, or print the colouring, puzzle and craft pages at home

- Issue 23 of the **Shalvit Kids TV Magazine** — collect all 50 issues, from *Count With Kiki!* to the Series 2 adventures!

**Perfect for:** dinosaur-loving little learners, preschool and nursery science themes, Sunday school, museum-trip preparation, and every family that wants big facts told truly and gently.

From the makers of the Shalvit Kids TV storybooks and songs — watch us on YouTube: search **Shalvit Kids TV**. 🎵

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