Review: All about the disappearing dinosaurs
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 16, 2013
Emma Child never disappoints in her Animals in Nature series. If you thought perhaps that the topic of Dinosaurs might just lead her off her usual format of photographs in nature, think again! She takes us to the digs and to replicas of these prehistoric animals better than anyone has to date.After a brief introduction as to just how large and when dinosaurs lived here on the planet, we are off on an adventure that will capture the minds of children while educating adults. Dinosaurs' remnants have been found on every continent of Earth and now that we no longer have them in our midst, Child shows us fossils and footprints that help us imagine just how huge these reptiles were.Interesting facts  are plentiful - dinosaurs had small brains and big feet, good sense of sight, smell, taste, sound and touch, hearing without ears, the carnivorous versus herbivorous forms, patterns of migration, some with long necks, others with long tails, dinosaurs that could swim in the ocean or fly in the sky, how they fought, and more.Child makes a fine section of the `Dinosaur Disaster' - how the dinosaurs died off so quickly for no know reason. And she even suggests that we pay better attention to the ecology of the planet so we humans won't be the next dinosaur disaster!Sharing this beautifully illustrated very informative book with your children will continue to be a source of discovery after many readings. Highly recommended. Grady Harp, December 13