This updated version of the classic Dinosaur book is a must have for any dinosaur crazy kid, or adult. The new computer created illustrations bring it more up to date and make it more current with todays’ standards, plus make the dinosaurs appear oh-so vividly realistic now.
The book covers evolution, how dinosaurs might have communicated and their senses, the requisite information on meat-eaters/plant-eaters and then delves into pages upon pages of anatomy. This is what will interest readers the most, or at least I found the most interesting. What were claws used for? Arms and hands? The sails and plates found on some? These questions and more are all answered.
Paired with a CD full of great dinosaur clip art and a wonderful wall chart bursting with dinosaur information, the book is everything one needs to start and complete a dinosaur project.
Reading level: 8 – 17 years
Page Count: 72 pages
Publisher: DK Publishing
Publisher’s synopsis:The most trusted nonfiction series on the market, Eyewitness Books provide an in-depth, comprehensive look at their subjects with a unique integration of words and pictures. Packed with real dinosaur fossils, this brand-new title replaces the long-running bestseller, Eyewitness Dinosaur, and features computer reconstructions bringing the fossils to life and reflecting the latest ideas on how dinosaurs looked and behaved.
About the Author: David Lambert has written more than a dozen books about dinosaurs, including Dorling Kindersley’s the Ultimate Dinosaur Book, joint winner of the Rhone-Poulenc Prize for Science Books Junior Prize in 1994. He has also written books on many other aspects of natural history and earth sciences – both prehistoric and modern. In 1990 he won a US National Science Teachers’ Association Children’s Book Council Award. In 1998 he received the Rhone-Poulenc Prizes for Science Books Junior Prize for The Kingfisher Book of Oceans.
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