The Great Dinosaur Atlas - Hardcover

William Lindsay

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0863186289 ISBN 13: 9780863186288

Publisher: Julian Messner, 1991

Synopsis

This book provides a guide to dinosaurs, including illustrations of all the main species, fossil evidence and the latest reconstructions. Commissioned pictorial maps show sites where dinosaur remains have been unearthed, revealing how the continents have changed their shape over millions of years. Researched text documents the characteristics of the dinosaurs, their feeding habits and how they lived. Compiled with the help of palaeontologists, this book should prove of interest to young readers.

About this title

From School Library Journal:

Grade 3 Up-A new dust jacket might lead readers to expect new illustrations in this revised edition of Great Dinosaur Atlas (Messner, 1991), but they remain the same on every page. What has changed is the text. There are numerous revisions of dates and the discovery of the Yucat n meteorite (which may have contributed in a major way to the extinction of dinosaurs) is recorded. Updated information on Baryonyx is given, as is revised data on Iguanodon locomotion. Perhaps most important, the reversal of roles for Oviraptor, based on new Gobi finds, is detailed, and the original fossilized eggs found by Roy Chapman Andrews and ascribed to Protoceratops are returned to their proper parentage. While budgets may be strained, and discarding an attractive, popular, heavily used old edition may be (in Dickens's term) a pull, avid dinophiles glom onto every statistic they can memorize, and they deserve accurate, updated data.
Patricia Manning, formerly at Eastchester Public Library, NY
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist:

This beautifully illustrated, oversize book takes readers on a fascinating around-the-world journey through the dinosaur age. Double-page spreads are vibrant collages of maps, brief overviews, facts, and visuals that effectively introduce such subjects as the history of the shifting continents, archaeological excavations, and dinosaur characteristics. Information is clearly conveyed in the richly colored, incredibly detailed illustrations, which feature a bountiful array of dinosaurs, up close, on maps for context, in fossil and skeleton form, and as they might have looked in their heyday. Lively prose effectively conveys the wealth of information by using comparisons kids can relate to; humor in text and subheads ("What a Frill!") will entertain as well as inform. Distinguished by its wonderful art and accessible, appealing format, this is a welcome addition to the genre, for reference and insatiable dino fans. Shelle Rosenfeld

About this edition

• Publisher: Julian Messner
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0863186289
• ISBN 13: 9780863186288
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 64
• Illustrator: Guiliano Fornari