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Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth's most fearsome creatures vanished. Today they remain one of our planet's great mysteries. Now The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs reveals their extraordinary, 200-million-year-long story as never before. In this captivating narrative (enlivened with more than seventy original illustrations and photographs), Steve Brusatte, a young American paleontologist who has emerged as one of the foremost stars of the field--naming...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Readers will roar with laughter as Digger the Dinosaur mixes up silly phrases in his second fully illustrated I Can Read title. Today is the big dino party! Digger and Dadasaur take a ride into town to get a cake, but before long, they get lost. Can Momasaur help Digger before it's too late? Or will Digger and Dadasaur have to go home cakeless? Beginning readers will learn common sight words and simple phonics sounds. Digger the Dinosaur and the Cake...
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Publisher
Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A new edition of the illustrated compendium that is "a gift to serious dinosaur enthusiasts" ( Science ). What do we know about dinosaurs, and how do we know it? How did they grow, move, eat, and reproduce? Were they warm-blooded or cold-blooded? How intelligent were they? How are the various groups of dinosaurs related to each other, and to other kinds of living and extinct vertebrates? What can the study of dinosaurs tell us about the process of...
Author
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
From Syd Hoff, famed creator of Danny and the Dinosaur, comes this collection of three rare books: Amy's Dinosaur features a forward-looking ecological theme. When Amy and her friends take a walk in the woods, they see lots of trash but no living creatures - until they meet a dinosaur who can't stand to see the Earth endangered once again and encourages the kids to help him clean up. Dinosaur Do's and Don't's, a gentle and humorous primer on manners,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Digger the Dinosaur is starring in a play! But will he remember all the lines he has to say? Young children just learning to read will enjoy the warmth and humor of this My First I Can Read story about a little dinosaur who keeps trying, no matter what. Author Rebecca Kai Dotlich is a poet and picture book author of such titles as What Is Science? and Lemonade Sun (an American Booksellers Pick of the Lists"). Her work is featured widely in poetry...
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A tour de force ... highlights the odd reptiles that roamed all corners of the earth millions of years ago." -- Sydney Morning Herald From the outback of Australia to the Gobi Desert of Mongolia and the savanna of Madagascar, the award-winning science writer and dinosaur enthusiast John Pickrell embarks on a world tour of new finds, meeting the fossil hunters who work at the frontier of discovery. He reveals the dwarf dinosaurs unearthed by an eccentric...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
After a day of playing in the rain, Danny and the dinosaur each catch a cold. How will Danny and the dinosaur both turn a sick day into something fun? Everyone knows that getting sick can be a bummer--but this lovable pair's creative ways of keeping a positive attitude will delight young readers as well as parents and caregivers. Readers first fell in love with Danny and his prehistoric pal in the I Can Read classic Danny and the Dinosaur , created...
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"The history and science of a cluster of dinosaurs found in the Hungarian region and the story of the aristocrat who discovered them. At the end of the time of the dinosaurs, Transylvania was an island in what was to become southeastern Europe. The island's limited resources affected the size and life histories of its animals, resulting in a local dwarfism. For example, sauropods found on the island measured only six meters long, while their cousins...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"It's Stego's birthday and Digger knows the perfect present to give his best friend -- a song! But when Digger mixes up the words, things get super silly. Join Digger the Dinosaur in all his I Can Read adventures!"--
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English
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When a boy brings his pterodactyl to school for show-and-tell, hilarious havoc ensues. The dinosaur's delightfully demented antics, the kids' expressions as they try to avoid the hungry pterodactyl, and the out-of-control imagination of the boy yield a wild and wacky romp. Pterodactyl Show and Tell taps into every child's impossible wish to bring a dinosaur to school, allowing readers to safely enjoy the laugh-out-loud logical conclusion: classroom...
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Language
English
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Description
"100 million years ago, the continents of Asia, North America, and Africa interacted to create an island archipelago that would later become the Europe we know today. It was on these ancient tropical lands that the first distinctly European organisms evolved... Tim Flannery explores the monumental changes wrought by the devastating comet strike and shows how rapid atmospheric shifts transformed the European archipelago into a single landmass during...
Author
Series
Publisher
Gurney Studio
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
During a mutiny on a prison ship, two boys are tossed overboard. Now they are stranded on Dinotopia. Raymond is the son of the ship's surgeon. He immediately takes to this strange new world and befriends a wounded Skybax named Windchaser. But Hugh, a London pickpocket, believes he'll never fit into this paradise. While Raymond helps Windchaser improve his shaky flying, Hugh forms a sinister plan. Soon all three are headed into a dangerous adventure...
Author
Publisher
Gibbs Smith
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Companion book to the Little Leonardo Fascinating World of series all about paleontologists and dinosaurs with hands-on activities for young readers. Learn fun facts about dinosaurs and the scientists who study them, called paleontologists, with simple hands-on activities for young readers. Did you know that a dinosaur bone is a fossil? Or that the same bones that form your ear form the jaw bones in a Tyrannosaurus Rex? The activities, designed to...
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Discover what dinosaurs looked like and what they ate, what their names mean, where they lived, and much more. This field guide is jam-packed with insights into the lives of creatures from the Mesozoic era, featuring up-to-date information based on recent discoveries. You'll also find loads of dinosaur-related activities, including: ; Coloring pages ; Word searches ; Spot-the-differences ; Drawing exercises ; Mazes & more!
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"It will be difficult for any reader to think about dinosaurs -- or birds -- in the same ways they had before." -- Publishers Weekly The discovery of stunning, feathered dinosaur fossils coming out of China in the twentieth century suggests that these creatures were much more bird-like than paleontologists previously imagined. Further evidence -- bones, genetics, eggs, behavior, and more -- has shown a seamless transition from fleet-footed carnivores...
18) Hadrosaurs
Series
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"A comprehensive study of the Late Cretaceous, duck-billed dinosaur, featuring insights on its origins, anatomy, and more. Hadrosaurs -- also known as duck-billed dinosaurs -- are abundant in the fossil record. With their unique complex jaws and teeth perfectly suited to shred and chew plants, they flourished on Earth in remarkable diversity during the Late Cretaceous. So ubiquitous are their remains that we have learned more about dinosaurian paleobiology...
Author
Series
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Ralph is just trying to get home from school without getting picked on by the local bully. He's not trying to run smack into that bully. He's also not trying to wake up hours later in the body of a Tyrannosaurus Rex. And he's DEFINITELY not trying to do battle in an alien arena in order to save Earth from the evil Cloberus Crunch. Unfortunately for Ralph, this is exactly what happens. Armed only with a new body (with very tiny arms) and his wits,...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Modern technology is pitted against ancient killers in this scientific thriller James Rollins calls "Jurassic Park set amid the paradox of time travel" Paleontologist Richard Leyster is perfectly content in his position with the Smithsonian excavating dinosaur fossil sites and publishing his findings . . . until the mysterious Harry Griffin appears in his office with a cooler containing the head of a freshly killed Stegosaurus. The enigmatic...
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