“Knowledge Masters – Dinosaurs” Book Reviewed

Designed with children from five years old and upwards in mind ,the book entitled “Knowledge Masters – Dinosaurs” is packed full of fascinating facts and snippets of information about dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals from the Age of Reptiles.  This hardback book has been written in a large font size enabling young people to read it very easily.  The information is broken down into bite-size paragraphs and they are laid out in such a way as to encourage young people to go through the book page by page, thus helping to develop  their reading skills.

“Knowledge Masters – Dinosaurs”

Knowledge Masters – Dinosaurs Book

Children’s reference book about dinosaurs.

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Illustrations and Drawings of Dinosaurs

The thirty-two pages contain a large number of illustrations and drawings of dinosaurs, marine reptiles and flying reptiles (pterosaurs) and each section is written in a question and answer format  A question is presented in bold text and immediately below it an answer paragraph has been provided.  Running along the top of each page is a mural-like section that provides more information about the animals featured on that specific page.

This book contains questions such as what did dinosaurs eat, are there any fossil birds, did dinosaurs have babies and what colour were the eyes of dinosaurs?  These are the sort of questions that children from four years and upwards ask and this book provides them with a ready source of answers .

The demise of the Dinosauria is particularly well covered.  In the last part of the book the extinction of the Dinosauria and other animals at the end of the Cretaceous geological period is discussed.  A number of possible theories for the mass extinction are put forward and the evidence for an extraterrestrial impact such as an asteroid strike is explained in child-friendly, simple terms.  There is even a handy dinosaur and prehistoric animal index presented on the last page, although it would have been helpful to have had a name pronunciation guide provided as well to help young readers tackle the long and often complicated dinosaur names.

Packed full of Questions and Answers about Prehistoric Animals

Lots of Information on prehistoric animals.

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Fourteen Chapters

Each of the fourteen chapters in this children’s reference is packed full of questions with their answers and facts and figures about dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures that lived during the Mesozoic Era.    This book would make an excellent addition to a school library or a young dinosaur fan’s book collection.  It is well written, contains lots of colour illustrations and it is jam-packed full of fascinating facts and details related to dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.

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A Review of the “Great Book of Dinosaurs”

Young dinosaur fans aged from five years and upwards will enjoy this fact-filled, hardback dinosaur book entitled the “Great Book of Dinosaurs”, which contains over two hundred illustrations.  Written in a nice, big font, this colourful dinosaur and prehistoric animal book will help encourage young readers, the 124 pages are well-laid out and the text consists of lots of short, clear paragraphs aimed at encouraging young people with their reading skills.

The Front Cover of the “Great Book of Dinosaurs”

Aimed at young readers.

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“Great Book of Dinosaurs”

The contents are set out in six chapters, the first of which introduces the dinosaurs and explains how these reptiles first evolved.  There is also a comprehensive “family tree” that shows the taxonomic relationships between the various different types of creatures that make up the Dinosauria.  Despite the book’s title, flying reptiles (pterosaurs) are extensively covered as well as dinosaurs and there is a handy timeline that explains how the main types of pterosaur evolved and when they lived.  The second chapter covers the evolution of the sauropods, dinosaurs such as Apatosaurus, Camarasaurus and Brachiosaurus.  Other chapters are entitled “Fearsome Hunters”, “Armoured Plant-eaters” and “Two-Legged Runners”.  The pterosaurs are covered in a chapter towards the end of this book in a section called “Monster Fliers”.

More than two hundred well-crafted illustrations really bring the Mesozoic Era to life and there is lots of information about dinosaur discoveries and palaeontology.  Diagrams of skeletons highlight the main differences between the major groups of dinosaurs and there is a handy “How do I say that” section which spells the names of these prehistoric creatures phonetically, thus helping with pronunciation.  This guide will prove especially helpful to those parents, grandparents and guardians who read this book with their young charges.

An Informative and Enjoyable Read

Packed full of facts and figures.

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Unique Fact File Layout

The best-known dinosaurs are given a unique fact file that explains when these animals lived, how big they were and what  they ate.  For those readers who want to use this as a reference book, there is a clearly laid out index at the back.  The pterosaurs are certainly featured and there is plenty of information on different types of flying reptile, creatures such as the spectacular Phobetor, Pteranodon and perhaps the largest pterosaur of all – Quetzalcoatlus.

Key words and phrases are explained very well using simple language and this hardback will prove to be very popular with children.  It was pleasing to see that maps had been included which show where the fossils of certain dinosaurs were found.  There is even a double page spread that displays a pair of tyrannosaurs feeding – T. rex illustrated in glorious, gory colour.

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A well-written and cleverly illustrated dinosaur book that helps readers learn about the lives of some of the biggest and fiercest creatures known to science.

A Review of the Dinosaur Dictionary (Book Review)

Many parents and guardians are keen to encourage reading and one way to motivate a child to read more is to provide them with books that they enjoy about subjects they are interested in.  Within the United Kingdom many primary schools are moving towards a more creative curriculum and dinosaurs are becoming increasingly popular with teachers and teaching assistants as a term topic.  Finding suitable reading materials to encourage young children to learn about science as well as to help develop their reading skills can be difficult.  However, with the advent of this child-friendly dinosaur dictionary we think this book is certainly a step in the right direction.

Dinosaur Dictionary

The Dinosaur Dictionary is aimed at children from four years and upwards and provides young palaeontologists with a handy dinosaur A-Z!  It is a colourful, child’s dictionary complete with a well thought out pronunciation guide to help children (and their parents), to pronounce the many complicated and lengthy prehistoric animal names contained in the sixty four pages of this book.

Dinosaur Dictionary – A Child-Friendly Dinosauria A-Z

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There are over one hundred prehistoric animals and dinosaurs featured in the book, the vast majority from the Mesozoic Epoch, which is generally regarded as the “Age of Reptiles”.

The dictionary starts with the Late Cretaceous titanosaur known as Alamosaurus.  This long-necked dinosaur that lived at the same time as Tyrannosaurus rex could well turn out to be one of the largest land living animals of all time, if recent fossil finds prove conclusive regarding this huge, herbivore’s size.  The dictionary provides a brief description of this dinosaur, and in common with all the other entries there is a colourful illustration of the creature and a black and white scale drawing showing size.  Each entry has plenty of facts about the particular animal being discussed and all the famous dinosaurs as well as some of the more unusual reptiles that shared their prehistoric world are included.

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Zephyrosaurus

The last dinosaur listed is Zephyrosaurus (hypsilophodontid dinosaur), one of the lesser known dinosaurs from the North American Cretaceous.  The book also includes a handy glossary and an short chapter introducing the Dinosauria, outlining when they lived and how they evolved.  The text is large and has been carefully compiled to enable young children to read the facts and figures about these prehistoric creatures with ease, there might be the odd scientific errata but the text and design of this book is aimed at delighting young dinosaur fans and helping them with their reading and it is likely that this publication will achieve these aims.

This young persons book is an excellent prehistoric animal A-Z!  A colourful dinosaur dictionary, complete with pronunciation guide, making sixty-four pages From Alamosaurus to Zephyrosaurus.  In summary,  a handy, well-illustrated guide to over one hundred dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.

One of the Horned Dinosaurs Illustrated in this Dinosaur Book

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A typical entry from the Dinosaur Dictionary is shown above, the text is large and encourages reading in young people, there are lots of facts and each prehistoric animal featured is illustrated.

Fun Fact!

There are more prehistoric animals represented under the letter “C” than under any other letter in the Dinosaur Dictionary.