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I often get asked to recommend books for budding young paleontologists; and with the holidays upon us, this question comes up a lot!
The first group are books that are appropriate for young children (elementary school age or younger) who are interested in dinosaurs. 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 Patricia Lauber, The News About Dinosaurs, Aladdin Paperbacks (Simon and Schuster), 1989 William Lindsay, On the Trail of Incredible Dinosaurs, Dorling Kindersley Publishing, 1998 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 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 middle school or older, younger paleontologists might need some help with the big words from Mom and Dad. R. McNeill Alexander, Bones: The Unity of Form and Function, Macmillan, Inc, 1994 Dougal Dixon (editor), The Macmillan Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals: A Visual Who's Who of Prehistoric Life, Macmillan Publishing Company, 1988 Niles Eldredge, Fossils: The Evolution and Extiction of Species, Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 1991 Eyewitness Visual Dictionary, The Visual Dictionary of Dinosaurs, Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Inc, 1993 Alan Feduccia, The Age of Birds, Harvard University Press, 1980 Tim Gardom and Angela Milner, The Book of Dinosaurs: The Natural History Museum Guide, Carlton Books Ltd, 1998 John R. Horner and Don Lessem, The Complete T. rex: How stunning new discoveries are changing our understanding of the world's most famous dinosaur, Simon and Schuster, 1993 John R. Horner and James Gorman, Digging Dinosaurs: The search that unraveled the mystery of baby dinosaurs, Workman Publishing, 1988 Louis Jacobs, Lone Star Dinosaurs, Texas A&M Press, 1995 Louis Jacobs, Quest for the African Dinosaurs: Ancient Roots of the Modern World, Villard Books, 1993 David Lambert, The Ultimate Dinosaur Book, Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Inc, 1993 Martin Lockley, Tracking Dinosaurs: A new look at an ancient world, University of Cambridge Press, 1991 David Norman, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs, Crescent Books, 1985 Go To Page: 1 2
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