Prehistoric Origami

by John Montroll

Book Overview

Over 1,200 clearly outlined folding instructions show how to create 20 paper models of world's most celebrated extinct animals as well as a mountain, volcano, dinosaur egg, and a prehistoric tree. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486265889
• ISBN13: 9780486265889
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 143 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.5" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Montroll Shows His Best, Again.

A book about dinosaurs folded from paper, a simple idea, really. But take a deeper look, and this is one of the most engaging origami books on the subject ever-for that matter, perhaps it is one of the best origami books ever. I know it is one of my top ten books. Enough praise, you want to know what's in it. Well, as Montroll usually does, the beginning models are so easy, I think you could fold them from sheet metal...an egg, mountain, and tree. Soon though, the dinosaurs begin, and slowly but surely the difficulty rises, until culminating with a Stegosaurus. Other dinosaurs include, T-rex, a bunch of gliding dinos, and others such as Dimetrodon and Spinosaurus. I would recommend this to any Dinosaur fan, and/or origami fan. However, a true beginner would find this book to be boring, because after the three 'sheet metal' models, the difficulty rises 2 or 3 fold. If you can make the first 4 or 5, you can probably learn to make them all. In short, a great buy!

I love dinosaurs!!

When i saw a dinosaur origami book i didn't think twice before buying it! I was bored with simple books making kitties and ducks, but these designs are very ORIGINAL! They are tricky and i often get frustrated with the complicated folds, but when i get a folded dinosaur all of my own in the end, I am so happy!! (No, I'm not a child either i just love dinosaurs!) I own a few origami books and have found this one is a favorite pick, besides the dinosaurs, i just love complicated folds! If you love dinosdaurs, origami, and a stiff challenge this book is for YOU!

Excellent Book

Very well made book, with a wide range of complexity for everyone. Dinosaurs look superb, and the treasure is the Steg at the end. A big challenge, and very time consuming, but looks Awesome! Very good book to have. Recommend it to any origamist.

Excellent book, a classic dino origami book .

In this book there are 20-more dinosaurs models, and most of them are not for beginners. Like Montroll's other books, there are some VERY COMPLEX models near the end of the book. This is an excellent book indeed, but compared with Fumiaki Kawahata's even excellent new dinosaur origami book, Montroll's models and foldings seem somewhat unnatually.

Wonderfull dinosaurs to be folded

John Montroll is one of the best Origami authors. This book shows this also. In the book, you find more then twenty different dinosaurs, which can be folded, each from one square piece of paper. Except for a few simple models, most of these origami models are not for beginners, but the final results are very very nice. Still, with some practice, one can come a long way. With detailed instructions, which are easy to followed for an experienced origami-enthousiast, one can make for instance a tyrannosaurus, a triceratops (my 3 years old directly recognized this as a character from The Land before Time), or a detailed stegosaurus.