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Dinosaur Discoveries (New & Updated)

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Here are the most recent theories about the history of dinosaurs, backed up with amazing facts about dinosaur discoveries. Gibbons discusses the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaccous periods and many of the non-bird dinosaurs that lived during each of those times.

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ISBN-13:	9780823441426
Publisher:	Holiday House
Publication date:	06/12/2018
Sold by:	Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format:	eBook
Pages:	32
File size:	89 MB
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Age Range:	6 - 9 Years

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Gail Gibbons "has taught more preschoolers and early readers about the world than any other children's writer-illustrator," according to the Washington Post. Winner of the 2010 Regina Award, she has written and illustrated more than fifty books for Holiday House. She lives in Corinth, Vermont.

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Before the aftereffects of a giant meteor impact snuffed them out 65 million years ago, dinosaurs roamed the world for more than 165 million years. Such longevity gives Gail Gibbons a lot to cover in this informative picture book, but she handles the job ably. In bright gatefolds, she introduces young readers to all the residents of real-life Jurassic and Cretaceous parks and describes how paleontologists are adding to this treasure trove of knowledge.

Gr 3-4-Gibbons leaps backward into the world of dinosaurs, starting with the cosmic event that may have caused their extinction 65 million years ago. From there she reviews the three geologic periods of the Age of Dinosaurs and provides a brief history of paleontology and its modern methods. What follows are busy pictorial spreads that feature a variety of saurians by classification (e.g., ceratopsians, stegasaurs, etc.) The swirling colorful illustrations depict enough dinos to satisfy novices, though Oviraptor lacks his crest and definitive beak, and Kentrosaurus his formidable shoulder spikes. Also, while Torosaurus once held the slot for the largest skull, it has been ousted by a recent find of an even larger pentoceratopsian skull. No dimensions are provided, but the nesting behavior of Maiasaurus is shown, as is the evolutionary connection between small theropods and modern birds. The book is vigorous, crowded, and slightly flawed, but it will entice young novices into demanding MORE.- Patricia Manning, formerly at Eastchester Public Library, NY Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

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"A high-interest subject, capably simplified."

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2018-04-16
A lightly revised survey of current dino-knowledge, updating the original 2005 edition."Lightly" is the key word here, as aside from one partially redrawn illustration and a few minor emendations, the changes are limited to editorial tweaks. Gibbons opens with the great extinction event, shows crews of paleontologists—including several women but all save one white, as before—at work, goes on to profile seven "groups" of dinosaurs from prosauropods to ornithopods, then closes with a link to modern birds. Considering the almost frenetic pace of new fossil discoveries, this is all something of a missed opportunity: There is no mention of Patagotitan mayorum, for instance, the largest land animal ever, nor, aside from the carried-over Archaeopteryx, are feathered dinosaurs represented beyond a specimen of Oviraptor in one illustration that has been recast as Anzu with the addition of a few inconspicuous feathery squiggles on the forelimbs. Still, the toothy T. rex on the cover is as riveting as ever, and despite being so loosely drawn that some Maiasaura are simply relabeled here as Edmontosaurus, another genus entirely, enough dinosaurs crowd the sparely detailed prehistoric scenes within to please even the most demanding fans.Almost entirely old news but nevertheless a must for libraries in need of replacement copies. (Informational picture book. 6-8)

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