Ultimate Dinosaur Book

by David Lambert

Book Overview

Describes how dinosaurs lived and died, offers profiles of the major types of dinosaurs, and identifies each species that has been discovered so far. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 156458304X
• ISBN13: 9781564583048
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.4" x 11.4"

Customer Reviews

my 4yr will love it

A wealth of images and info, a book that he will treasure for years

This book is absolutely fantastic!

My 3 year old son and I have been poring over this book ever since he got it three weeks ago. The illustrations and photos are absolutely fabulous. Each page contains a wealth of information about each of the 50 or so featured dinosaurs, and an extensive index in the back provides a small blurb about hundreds more. We go through several pages a night, reading different portions of each page, learning about a different aspect of each dinosaur. My son has already memorized where his favorite dinosaurs reside in the book, and the book is sturdy enough to handle his rapid and not-to-gentle page-turning. I know this one will be a favorite for a long time. I recommend it for anyone of any age who loves dinosaurs.

He still keeps as a bedtime book

My son has fallen in love with this book at the age of 2 and still (2 years later) it's his favoutite.The quality of illustrations, the lifelike expressions of dinosaur's faces - everything is superb. If you do not mind your kid's fist words to be T.Rex instead of mammy -buy it!

A Joy to Read

I bought the book so that I can teach my 5 year old son more about dinosaurs. He becomes fascinated with dinosaurs after watching Jurassic Park and its sequel Lost World. After reading the book, I found I have learnt a lot. The book, true to what its title claims, is ultimate in that it starts from how the Earth was formed, the periods during which different types of dinosaurs flourished; how the dinosaurs evolved and extinguished; how the fossils were formed through to how they were discovered. It also features classification of the dinosaurs. The colorful illustrations also include the dinosaurs (e.g. Mamenchisaurus which had got the longest neck among all the dinosaurs) unearthed in China. I have passed on the knowledge to my son who can now identify more than 20 types of dinosaurs and can tell the difference between a Brachiosaurus from a Diplodocus. He has also been able to draw a lively T-Rex. My daughter is just 2 years old and I can't wait for her to grow up so that I can tell her more about dinosaurs.

Perfect!

This was the perfect book for a dinosaur enthusiast, it has just the right mix of information and pictures, and its at the right level for someone like me who already knew the basics about dinosaurs. The bulk of the book is a series of features about some very cool dinosaurs like Deinoychus, Baryonyx and of course, T-Rex.

DINOSAURS!

This book is cool, with lots of good information. If you like dinosaurs, get it!! Maybe its just me though, cause I think Dinosaurs were the coolest things in the universe.