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What happened to the dinosaurs?

For millions of years these fantastic creatures roamed our planet. Then, suddenly, they all disappeared. Scientists wonder why. What could have caused this huge extinction 65 million years ago?

In this enlarged edition, distinguished writer Franklyn M. Branley and award-winning artist Marc Simont provide the perfect introduction to an always fascinating subject - the disappearance of the dinosaurs.

Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children 1989 (NSTA/CBC)

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You can learn a lot about dinosaurs by looking at their bones. Some dinosaurs were very small; others were huge. Some had sharp, pointy teeth for eating meat; most plant-eaters had flat, dull teeth. Some dinosaurs' hipbones pointed forward, while other dinosaurs' hipbones pointed backward. There were dinosaurs with bony armor on their backs and others with deadly horns on their heads. Today scientists have divided dinosaurs into separate orders according to their special characteristics. It's easy to see--dinosaurs are different.

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Another Aliki winner!
Aliki has a gift for bringing clarity to scientific subjects, and it shows once again in this book. Even (or especially?) children who aren't CRAZY about dinosaurs will enjoy this book. And along the way children will get a thorough exposure to the kind of careful observing and sorting that scientists do. Why not follow the book up with some observing and sorting games? ... Read more

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This book is really Xtreme!
Well,after reading "Dinosaurs!The Biggest,Baddest,Strangest & Fastest" and "Dinosaur Imagery",I`m receiving the third great dinosaur art book,which can almost be classified as a follow-up and companion to "Dinosaurs!".
It is mainly written for children in the ages of 10 or something,but I still find it very fascinating as it provides entertaining information on what the dinosaurs may behaviored and looked like.
For the first,the dinosaurs of this book are mainly cretaceous,so if you`re a fan of stegosaurs or sauropods,this is nothing for you. But if you like the small theropods,there is no better art book. This book is like a dinosaurian sightseeing guide - it begins with a short introduction,then chapters about American,South American African,and Asian dinosaurs. Each continent has very special ones - in North America,you`ll find T-rex and Utahraptor,in South America we meet the bizarre "buldog" dinosaur Carnotaurus,the fearfull Giganotosaurus and the strange Amargasaurus with a sail on the neck!
The asian dinosaurs are perhaps even more bizarre,such as the Therizinosaurus with 3-foot claws,and the dinosaur-bird link Sinsauropteryx. Special attention are given to the feathered dinosaurs,and he puts feathers on nearly all meat-eaters under a tonne!
It ends with a short chapter about the most weird & wonderfull dinosaurs,like the most deadly dino ever to live - Deinonychus,which looks more like a stupid turkey than a horror lizard,but is still a perfect predator,with 6-inch claws!And the recently discovered Byronosaurus and the Jurassic Park favorite Velociraptor are also given some attention,especially the picture when the raptors are playing in the snow,which is an image that just feels so moving and uplifting I almost want to move myself!
After reading this book,I really had some thoughts about dinosaurs. They may didn`t looked like most people imagine. May be they weren`t so unlike the present animals,but in some way this makes them even more fascinating and wonderfull. The restorations of this book can`t barely be described in words ; you have to see them for yourself to fully know what I mean.
I will also base my upcoming dinosaur comic on the look and behavior of these "Extreme Dinosaurs".
If you wish to have a dino art book with just one painter,then there is no better than this!So buy it! ... Read more

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For Kids Who Dig Dinosaurs
Like many children, my daughter went through an intense dinosaur phase. At age 3 she told people she was going to be a paleontologist and wash ducks (a nod to an environmental program she watched on TV). Therefore, I was happy to find a story about Mary Anning of Lyme, England, one of the world's earliest fossil hunters. Remarkably, she excavated an entire skeleton on her own -- later sold to a museum -- when still a child. Since so many books about professions are concerned with what kids can do "when they grow up," my daughter enjoyed hearing about a dinosaur hunter who was not much older than she was herself. ... Read more

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9 X 10 1/2 In, 32 Pp, Full-Color < Illustrations Throughout, Ages 4 To 8 < So Why Did The Banana Split? Well, For < The Same Reason The Jackhammers Hit The < Road, The Lettuce Headed Out, and The < Jump Ropes Skipped Town. It Was Even < Enough To Make The Baseball Players < Strike Out. Here's A Hint: It's Bigger < Than A Bread Box. and Named Rex. With < Jimmy Holder's Sly Illustrations < Bringing Every Pun To Life, Rick < Walton's Verbal Deftness Will Leave < Readers Splitting Too--Their Sides. ... Read more

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Hilarious tale of how a town reacts when a dinosaur visits.
This highly entertaining tale describes how a town's inhabitants react when Rex the dinosaur arrives. Everyone has a unique way of reacting to the great big dinosaur with huge teeth. But the author's description of HOW the town reacts is what makes this story a true delight. Children will be delighted with the detailed and action-packed illustrations. Adults, however, may be surprised to find the pun-filled story line is as entertaining for them as for the intended 4 to 8-year-old reading audience. A true masterpiece of plays on language, parents will find themselves wanting to read this story again and again to their children -- and themselves! ... Read more

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The T-Rex comes through the time portal and invades the present, catapulting readers into the second Time Soldiers® adventure. The kids manage to keep the raging dinosaur from hurting anyone. But who are those guys in the dark suits? And why is there a pirate in the time portal? ... Read more

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Great book for boys!
My boys love this book and the first Rex book. They are waiting for the rest of the books. They have read the two they have many times over and can't wait to get more. I have been very dissapointed that I can't find the rest of the series for them. I hope they appear soon. What a great way for kids to learn and to get them reading.
A mom of three

teacher's class pick
I got this in a set and my class really enjoyed it. My staff and I had a great time recognizing local locations and personalities. Even the children recognized some of them. they enjoyed the exciting story and have asked for it over and over again. I look forward to more from these exciting writers and so do my children. ... Read more

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It starts in the tub, with a dinosaur bath toy. But then another dinosaur pops out of the water. And look out - here comes another - and another - and ANOTHER. Soon there is a Hall of Dinosaurs in the bathroom.

Fill the bathtub.
It could happen.
All it takes is imagination!

01 Riverbank Review Magazine's Children's Books of Distinction Award

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Dinosaur fun
This wordless picturebook is just right for sharing with a young dinosaur fan. It begins as a small boy heads to the tub with his toy dinosaur. Soon, "real" dinosaurs begin to creep into the pictures until they eventually spread across the pages and take over the bathroom. Only when mother comes running with a towel does the last dinosaur tail slip off the page. This is a fun book that blurs the lines between a child's imagination and reality.

Jurassic bath
As in the three previous Matt adventures by Peter Sis, gouache paints draw out a young boy's imagination. At the same time, plain white background pages in each book anchor the child in such daily activities as playing, spacing out on the sofa while his mother vacuums, putting away his toys, and this time bathing. Again, one color is highlighted: red in FIRE TRUCK, blue in SHIP AHOY!, orange in TRUCKS TRUCKS TRUCKS, and now green in DINOSAUR.

The author/illustrator takes the hallmark sparse text of FIRE TRUCK and TRUCKS TRUCKS TRUCKS one step further. Thus, DINOSAUR, like SHIP AHOY!, is wordless. Typically, each story holds its own just by the pen and ink and watercolor art. Also, when imagination has worked itself up to its wildest, there is the characteristic reality check reeling in of Matt by his mother: by making pancakes, reading a story, taking a walk, and here providing a bedtime towel rescue from the water-splashed battle in the bathroom.

My mother quickly distinguished birds and butterflies in flight because her parents not only showed her the classic stationary poses in books but also went out on their land at the edge of her small hometown to practice identifying the abundant nature in flight and in motion. Sis likewise decorates the inside pages of the front and back covers with immobile dinosaurs and then depicts them in motion across the Matt quartet's hallmark gate-fold illustration spreading to three pages. The dinosaurs get bigger and interact more forcibly until they all trample across a desert which was probably a jungle before the Jurassic jaws and paws chomped and clomped through it. In the process, DINOSAUR clears up the confusion over similar dinosaurs by grouping the plodding Apatosaurus and upright Plateosaurus; the three-toed Compsognathus and the two-toed Deinonychus; the anteater-faced Corythosaurus and Saurolophus; the armored Europlocephalus, Stegosaurus, and Triceratops; the bigger headed Tyrannosaurus and more pinheaded Camptosaurus.

I like to think of the four Matt adventure books as prequels to the previously published KOMODO! by the same author/illustrator. The little boy who collects trucks could end up collecting dragon memorabilia. Also, with his ship imaginings, Matt could take a trip to the island of the Komodo dragon, particularly after passing through a dinosaur adventure with a dinosaur toy in his earlier years.

This latest book in the Matt quarter takes its place on the shelf with the ZOOM and RE-ZOOM perspective books by Istvan Banyai and with such other classics as TIME TO GET OUT OF THE BATH, SHIRLEY by John Burningham and WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE by Maurice Sendak. DINOSAUR helps young readers get through the terrors of the bath, as described by David F. Birchman in THE RAGGLY SCRAGGLY NO-SOAP NO-SCRUB GIRL and by Rebecca C. Jones in DOWN AT THE BOTTOM OF THE DEEP DARK SEA. Peter Sis also leads the young reader down the road to such classics as the nutcracker, the tin soldier, and the velveteen rabbit stories in which toys have their own lives. Thus, it is not only Matt but also the toy Tyrannosaurus clutched in his left hand that emerge clean enough from the bath ritual. ... Read more

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Paleontologist Robert T. Bakker tells the amazing story of a day in the life of a pack of Deinonychus
(a.k.a.“raptor”) dinosaurs. Readers follow the creatures as they single out, kill, and devour an injured tenontosaur; climb up into a tree; fall asleep; and are themselves stalked by a giant predator. Includes an explanation of how scientists study rocks and minerals; fossil roots, claws, teeth, and bones; and modern predators to understand raptor behavior. ... Read more

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Some thing new for kids!!
This book is great for young kids that are interested in Dinosaurs and the world of paleontology. This is a must have book for any parent interested in a good story with a good facts to back it up! ... Read more

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Janet, a young Hatchery apprentice, runs away when she accidentally

endangers a dinosaur egg.Then she meets a gravely wounded Gryposaurus, a very

rare dinosaur.Entrusted with the dying Gryposaurus's newly laid egg, Janet

knows she must brave the wilds of Dinotopia--and return to an uncertain

reception at the Hatchery.




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One of the most whimsical & enchanting books I've read!!
Midori Synder conveyed the world of Dinotopia to me in a exciting, suspenseful way. Every page of The Hatchling was wonderful in its own enchanting way. I especially taken with Anthraxan's(the archeopterex's)poem! ... Read more

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Did you know that a T-rex could have swallowed a twelve-year-old in one gulp? Put on your 3-D glasses (carefully attached inside each book) and dive into an ocean full of sharks, or a steamy jungle crawling with dinosaurs. The sophisticated design incorporates new 3-D technology that allows the images to be clear and in full color, ensuring a beastly encounter that is truly in-your-face!

Packed with surprising facts and spine-tingling illustrations or photographs, 3-D Dinosaurs offers the kind of learning fun kids can really sink their teeth into. ... Read more