Review: Vegetarians Only
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 12, 2013
I like that this book is SOLELY about the plant eaters. All too often, the carnivores steal the show. I also liked a lot of the photographs that showed life-sized animal models with REAL foliage and even some with humans. It's so much easier to appreciate how huge these animals were when there is something familiar to compare them to. I also liked the thoroughness of the "Fast Facts" (see previous review for breakdown of those) and the VERY welcome aid to pronunciation on the name of EVERY dinosaur, not just the supposed "unfamiliar" ones.This would probably not be the best introduction to dinosaurs for younger kids, but a good one for the smarty-pants types who are no longer challenged with the basics. Make no mistake: this book is intermediate to advanced. I missed a lot of these and I suspect even some dinosaur geeks would have a little trouble because this is meant to be challenging. The author includes some easy guesses, but he also includes some very obscure dinosaurs that even the average college graduate (unless they are paleontologists) have never heard of. Recommended for above-average readers as there's really no way for it not to contain those L-O-N-G scientific names.