Dinosaurs in the Garden [Hardcover]

R. Gary Raham (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0937548103 | ISBN-13: 978-0937548103 | Publication Date: June 1988

Dinosaurs in the Garden provides teachers, students, and amateur naturalists a guide to discovering the diverse lives and natural history of the wealth of creatures that share our backyards. Learn how to listen in on starling conversations, build a backyard vivarium, create a spider arena, and much more, while discovering how your backyard neighbors evolved and prospered during Earth's geologic past. Informative without being overly-technical, Dinosaurs in the Garden is superbly illustrated with over 180 drawings and photographs.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"A fascinating and well-illustrated introduction to natural history that describes commonly encountered creatures, such as starlings and pill bugs, and chronicles the changes that have occurred in them over the length of Earth's long history." -- Science News, Vol. 134, pg 242

"Drawings, photographs and an informed but lively text draw out the evolutionary implications of the wonders that abound in the life around us, transmuted by insight out of the commonplace. Amusing, direct, visual, never condescending to the reader or to any other living form, this is a find." -- Philip and Phylis Morrison, Scientific American, December 1988, pg 126

"Raham's book succeeds because he has produced a hybrid between an essay collection and a project workbook...Dinosaurs is for the person who will read a bit, put the book down, go outside and turn over a rock to see just what the heck the author is talking about." -- Kevin Cook, nature columnist, in Backyard Bugwatching, No. 6, 1989

From the Author

I had great fun writing Dinosaurs in the Garden. My kids were young and I was able to introduce them to the natural world and add to my own knowledge at the same time. The book was created while I was working full-time as a graphic artist and is a testament to the fact that 1: Large tasks can be completed one small step at a time and 2: you don't have to travel to exotic locations to find a wealth of fascinating creatures to study: they live their lives all around (and on) you. I hope you enjoy sharing this journey with me.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 279 pages
• Publisher: Plexus Pub (June 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0937548103
• ISBN-13: 978-0937548103
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,338,386 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I love to help connect kids to science through story. I've written 14 books, several video scripts, and award-winning articles for Highlights for Children, Cricket, Read, and other magazines, as well as some short SF stories. I use The Deep Time Diaries and Teaching Science Fact with Science Fiction, to create middle school enrichment material in English and science with the help of master teacher, Vicky Jordan. I illustrate much of my own work and also create natural history and biomedical illustrations for a variety of clients. I enjoy writing adult science columns for The North Forty News and Colorado Gardener magazine, as well as "Kid's Quarry" columns for Trilobite Tales, the official newsletter of the Western Interior Paleontological Society.