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Dinosaur Worlds: New Dinosaurs, New Discoveries [Hardcover]

Don Lessem (Author)
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Shows how and where dinosaurs lived in their environment with other animals and plants, illustrating and explaining the rise and fall of the dinosaur age based on the most up-to-date information available. $100,000 ad/promo. Tour.

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bigger, but not nicer Don Lessem, also known as "Dino Don," tells the story of the dinosaur's rise and fall in Dinosaur Worlds. This compendium of up-to-date information describes the habitats and feeding habits of countless kinds of dinosaurs. Each chapter focuses on a different location; "Fact File" sidebars provide further information about each site. The book announces the largest dinosaur to be the Argentinosaurus, not the Ultrasaurus (or the Brontosaurus, for those who are really behind the times); the largest meat-eater was the Giganotosaurus, not Tyrannosaurus rex.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From School Library Journal

Grade 5 Up-Many books on dinosaurs get caught up in cataloging the creatures and their features and forget to fit them into an ecological niche. Lessem's endeavor is brilliant because it describes dinosaurs by integrating them into their environment, which includes climate, geology, fauna and flora, and the continent on which they lived, thus connecting the animal to its time and place. Few other books on the topic fill in the full picture so well. Lessem even includes a "Then" and "Now" feature to show readers that the deserts and cliffs where dinosaur bones are found today were often jungles and oceans in prehistoric times. The book is organized into large chapters that investigate dinosaur finds on all continents. Readers are treated with vivid portraits of how raptors hunted 125 million years ago in what is now Utah, and how in the skies 200 million years ago, pterosaurs cruised over an Antarctica with a climate more like the American Northwest. The book is packed with good information for reports, and includes an excellent list for further reading. But it's also great for browsing. This is in part due to its large size, which accommodates excellent full-color artwork that truly captures the towering necks of sauropods or the action-packed drama of a carnivore tracking down a meal. This portrait of the Earth's past life is a masterpiece.
Cathryn A. Camper, Minneapolis Public Library
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

  • Reading level: Ages 9 and up
  • Hardcover: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Boyds Mills Press (August 1996)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1563975971
  • ISBN-13: 978-1563975974
  • Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 8.7 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,989,561 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Real cool, June 28, 1999
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This review is from: Dinosaur Worlds: New Dinosaurs, New Discoveries (Hardcover)
This book is great for anyone who likes dinos! I read this book in 5th grade and i still think its cool. Great artwork to!
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