The Big Beast Book: Dinosaurs and How They Got That Way

by Jerry Booth

Book Overview

The Brown Paper School, that compendium of fun, facts, and experiments that gets young people really thinking, takes on the subject of dinosaurs. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316102636
• ISBN13: 9780316102636
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Big Beast book was big fun

Not quite as far back as the dinosaurs, I was homeschooling my three younger children. One of the books we used for our studies was the Big Beast Book. When I was a child, I was deeply interested in dinosaurs and I was lucky enough to be living near Rapid City, South Dakota, home to the School of Mines, a school with a compact collection of fossils. In the 1950s no one mentioned lizard-hipped or bird-hipped dinosaurs, but The Big Beast Book did; it was a revelation. I was not only pleased to renew my acquaintance with dinosaurs, but tickled to find out new information. Although the book is simply illustrated, I didn't find that style to be a distraction. Many of the newer 'full color' photo-realistic books have so much detail that it all turns into background noise. Sometimes simpler is better.