num_pages: 40
description: Barnum Brown's (1873-1963) parents named him after the circus icon P.T. Barnum hoping that he would do something extraordinary--and he did! As a paleonotologist for the American Museum of Natural History he discovered the first documented skeleton of the Tyrannosaurus Rex as well as most of the other dinosaurs on display there today.An appealing and fun picture book biography with zany and stunning illustrations by Boris Kulikov BARNUM'S BONES captures the spirit of this remarkable man.
language: English
title: Barnum's Bones: How Barnum Brown Discovered the Most Famous Dinosaur in the World
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux