The first group are books that are appropriate for young children (elementary school age or younger) who are interested in dinosaurs.
Robert T. Bakker, Maximum Triceratops, Random House, 2004
Robert T. Bakker, Raptor Pack, Random House, 2003
Michael Benton, The Dinosaur Encyclopedia, Aladdin Paperbacks (Simon and Schuster), 1984
Michael Benton, Dinosaur and Other Prehistoric Animal Fact Finder, Kingfisher, 1992
Daniel Cohen, Dinosaur Discovery: Facts, Fossils, and Fun!, Puffin Books (Penguin Group), 1998
Eyewitness Books, Dinosaur, Alfred A. Knopf (Dorling Kindersley Publishing) 1989
Sylvia Funston, The Dinosaur Question and Answer Book, Little, Brown and Company, 1992
Thomas R. Holtz, T. rex: Hunter or Scavenger? Random House, 2003
Patricia Lauber, The News About Dinosaurs, Aladdin Paperbacks (Simon and Schuster), 1989
William Lindsay, On the Trail of Incredible Dinosaurs, Dorling Kindersley Publishing, 1998
James Martin, Living Fossils: Animals that Have Withstood the Test of Time, Knopf Books for Young Readers 1997
Angela Milner, Children's Chronicle of Dinosaurs, Studio Editions, 1993
Angela Milner, Dinosaurs, Time Life Books, 1995
Mary Packard, Dinosaurs, Simon and Schuster, 1981
Barbara Taylor, The Really Deadly and Dangerous Dinosaur and Other Monsters of the Prehistoric World, Dorling Kindersley Publishing, 1997
Dennis R. Shealy, Dinosaurs Alive! The Dinosaur-Bird Connection, Random House, 2001
Christopher Sloan, SuperCroc and the Origin of Crocodiles, National Geographic, 2002
Paul D. Taylor, Fossil, Dorling Kindersley, 1993
Philip Whitfield, Children's Guide to Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals, Simon and Schuster, 1992
Angela Wilkes, The Big Book of Dinosaurs: A First Book for Young Children, Dorling Kindersley Publishing, 1993
The following is a list of books from my own collection that would be useful to future paleontologists in high school or older, younger paleontologists will need some help with the big words from Mom and Dad.
Jordi Agusti and Mauricio Anton, Mammoths, Sabertooths, and Homininds: 65 Million Years of Mammalian Evolution in Europe, Columbia University Press, 2002
McNeill R. Alexander, Dynamics of Dinosaurs and other Extinct Giants, Columbia University Press, 1989
Mauricio Anton and Alan Turner, The Big Cats and their Fossil Relatives: An Illustrated Guide to their Evolution and Natural History, Columbia University Press, 2000
Michael Archer, Suzanne J. Hand, and Henk Godthelp, Australia's Lost World: Prehistoric Animals of Riversleigh, Indiana University Press, 2001
J. David Archibald, Dinosaur Extinction and the End of an Era, What the Fossils Say, Columbia University Press, 1996
Steven T. Asma, Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads: The Culture and Evolution of Natural History Museums, Oxford University Press, 2002