Battlesaurus: Rampage at Waterloo

Battlesaurus: Rampage at Waterloo

Author	Brian Falkner
Language	English
Genres	Alternate history fantasy
Publisher	Square Fish
Publication date	July 14, 2015
Publication place	New Zealand
ISBN	978-1250079930

Battlesaurus: Rampage at Waterloo is a 2015 young adult alternate history novel written by Brian Falkner. It is set during the Napoleonic Wars in a universe where non-avian dinosaurs never went extinct.

In an alternate universe, non-avian dinosaurs never went extinct. While smaller dinosaurs thrive in Europe, much larger ones live in the Americas, leading to the continent never become inhabited by humans. After escaping exile in Elba, Napoleon captures some large dinosaurs from the Americas and plans to use them to conquer Europe. It is up to Willem, a 15-year-old Flemish boy, to stop him, as he has the ability to put dinosaurs into a trance because of training from his father, who was a magician.

The book was received positively, winning the Young Adult Fiction Award in the 2016 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults,^[1] as well as being on the shortlist for the Ethel Turner Prize for Young Adult's Literature that same year in the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards.^[2] School Library Journal described it as "thrilling and positively addicting".^[3]

• Temeraire, another alternate history book series about giant reptiles in the Napoleonic Wars