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Text and illustrations present the life of the dinosaur known as the American mastodon. Includes information on how this prehistoric animal looked, along with its behavior. ... Read more

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Examines how paleontologists discover, study, classify, reconstruct, and restore the fossil remains of many kinds of dinosaurs. ... Read more

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Describes the characteristics of various extinct animals as reconstructed from their fossilized remains. ... Read more

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Outlines the fundamentals of drawing dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures from fossils, models, and toys. ... Read more

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NICE WORK
If you child likes dinosaurs, and what kid dose not, and likes to draw, most of them do, then this is a delightful addition to your child's collection.The author has given us quite a number of pencil drawings, simply drawn along with a very good text commenting on each drawing.To be honest, I have no tallent for drawing what-so-ever, but even I could come up with a credible picture of these ancient creatures using this book as a guide.This is also a good one to have setting on the class room shelf as it is a very good reference book and motivational book for those young ones who are into such.recommend this one highly. ... Read more

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. ... Read more

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Adapted from the pages of LIFE factual books for young readers ... Read more

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Text and illustrations present the life of the prehistoric flying reptile known as the pteranodon, including information on how it looked, along with its behavior. ... Read more

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Bring back the dinosaurs!This kit has all you need to get started on your own prehistoric zoo.Learn how to twist, tie and transform basic balloons into wild beasts.Create a saber-toothed tiger, an ankle-biting Anklosaurus, a mighty T-rex, and much more!Includes a 64-page book with full-color photos and easy-to-follow instructions to guide you through each project.

Includes a balloon pump, googly eyes, and 34 multi-colored modeling balloons.Packaged in a plastic case. ... Read more

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Text and illustrations present the life of the dinosaur known as velociraptor. Includes information on how this prehistoric animal looked, along with its behavior. ... Read more

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Text and illustrations present the life of the prehistoric animal known as the megalodon, including information on how it looked, along with its behavior. ... Read more

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An alphabetical guide to over 200 dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, covering where and when they lived. ... Read more

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Cool Dinosaur Reference Book
I still remember when I first saw this book. One of my school class mates had it, and I instantly thought it was great and wanted my copy! This was back in the mid-nineties when I was in Junior High School. Finding a copy turned out to be much harder than it thought it would be for some reason. When I saw that amazon.com had it listed, I had to write a review!

Apparently the first edition came out in 1989 published by Dr. Michael Benton originally written in English. In the first pages the book goes into different sections: "El Descubrimiento De Los Gigantes Del Pasado" that talks about the first fossils discovered, "La Edad De La Tierra" focuses on Earth's age and it's history, then there's the detailed description on how fossils form and the different classes of them.
Next come a section that explains the different classes of prehistoric animals and finally on page twenty eight the first A creature, the dinosaur "Abelisaurus", appears and so it continues all the way to Z. In between there's such popular creatures like the Diplodocus, Spinosaurus, Brachiosaurus, and the mandatory Tyrannosaurus Rex of course. You can't write a book about dinosurs and leave out the T. Rex, easily the most popular dinosaur ever!!

You may skip this paragraph but I would like to share a short story. It all happened back when I was in Junior High School in Argentina. It was around April of 1997 when I was in seventh grade that my natural science teacher assigned the class to do a presentation on dinosaurs. I was delighted! So she divided us in groups and gave us like two weeks to work on it giving us the actual class time and we could work after school too. That's when one of my classmates showed up one day with this book!!
So we used it as reference and it was very helpful indeed! That's why I liked it so much!
So then we prepared a couple of cool posters featuring a collage of dinosaur drawings taken from different books including this one of course!
I couldn't wait for our scheduled presentation date to arrive! Finally it came and my group did great. All members received a score of ten which in my country is the equivalent to 100 in the US. I recall using a radio antenna durning the presentation as a pointer which everyone thought was so cool! Also I brought pictures taken during a trip me and my family made a couple of years earlier to Chubut, one of the provinces of Argentina. In the city of Trelew, we visited the local natural science museum. In one of the exhibitions they had a dinosaur egg!!! So I posed for a picture which later I brought to school and passed it around to my classmates while we were doing the presentation!! The name of the museum is Florentino Ameghino.
Sorry for this extremely self-indulgent paragraph but I had to tell this story here!

Last but not least, in the last pages of the book, you get a World Museum Directory that lists all the places where you can find dinosaur exhibitions! (The Florentino Ameghino museum is not listed though!!) Also I was surprised at the age range given above for the book. Only up to eight years? If you ask me this book has no age limit really. To me, it doesn't really look like a children-only book.
Very cool book indeed!!
Thanks for taking the time to read!
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