Dinosaurium

Anyone who has read this blog knows my son, Elliot, is a bit…obsessed with dinosaurs.  And I may have thought we had exhausted the dinosaur books available.  It is rare that we can stump him with a dinosaur he has not already encountered in some form of media but Dinosaurium did just that.  Did you know that half of all dinosaur discoveries have happened in the past 30 years?  This does explain the vast gap in my knowledge from childhood which came predominantly from the pictures on the kids cup at Wendy’s and my son’s which comes from every available scrap of information about dinosaurs.  I had not before encountered the dinosaur classification system and family tree, known as a cladogram, that is featured in this text.  Similarly, I hadn’t previously seen the breakup of Pangea and the continental shift shown among the three different periods of the Mesozoic Era: Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous.  The organization of this text is very logical and will make plenty of sense to the junior paleontologist in your life.  The inclusion of extinction theories as well as survivors of the extinction help readers to understand how other creatures continued to evolve from the ancestors of the dinosaurs.  The large size (height and width) of the book Dinosaurium make it a novelty, a great gift for a dino-loving reader!

Title: Dinosaurium

Author: Chris Wormell and Lilly Murray

Published 2017 by Big Picture Press an imprint of Candlewick

ISBN: 978-0-7636-9900-0