Not For Parents How to be a Dinosaur Hunter: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know (Lonely Planet Kids) - Hardcover

Lonely Planet Kids

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1743219083 ISBN 13: 9781743219089

Publisher: Lonely Planet, 2013

Synopsis

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To be a dinosaur hunter you have to be ready to journey through space and time. This book will guide you to remote corners of the world and show you where and how to find dinosaur remains, ranging from bones and teeth to eggs and footprints. It will also take you far back into Earth's prehistoric past to find out when, where and how dinosaurs lived - and bring you face to face with some of the biggest, scariest and weirdest creatures that ever roamed our planet. Along the way, you'll pick up tips from some of the most famous dinosaur detectives of the past and present, visit many of the world's fi nest fossil collections and learn how to date your finds, transport them home and bring them back to life - well, almost!

• Dress for success
• Identify a dinosaur
• Survive a mass extinction
• Find fossil-rich rocks
• Dig up bones
• Steer clear of predators
• Wrap a fossil
• Rebuild a skeleton

Author: Lonely Planet

About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, as well as an award-winning website, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet's mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world and to truly get to the heart of the places where they travel.

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About this title

From School Library Journal

Gr 3–6—This is a fact-filled romp for anyone fascinated by dinosaurs. Assuming that readers are embarking on a journey through both time and space to learn about and find dinosaurs, this guide supplies tips for budding paleontologists on everything from what to pack to how to outrun an enormous meat eater. Children are invited to explore three periods of time when dinosaurs ruled the Earth: Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous. Scientific data is made easily accessible, including new discoveries. Also included are interesting facts about the many scientists and fossil hunters involved in past and present archaeological expeditions. The author suggests places to visit worldwide, including natural history museums and special collections. The full-color, cartoon illustrations offer numerous sidebars with supplemental facts and asides filled with puns, jokes, and other humorous elements that will appeal to children. Though the volume is best suited for casual browsing, a thorough index makes it a useful tool for research projects as well. Recommended for most collections.—Eva Elisabeth VonAncken, formerly at Trinity-Pawling School, Pawling, NY

Review

School Library Journal, December 10, 2013

Directly addressing readers, this guide challenges them to assemble the world s greatest collection of dinosaur fossils, taking them through the preparations for a field study then back in time to the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods. . . . Watch this one fly off the shelf.

GeekDad, October 22, 2013

I really like "How to Be a Dinosaur Hunter". It gives a pretty complete picture of dinosaur studies on a kid s level, but covers quite a lot of facts that other dinosaur books for kids likely miss, and does it all with quite a sense of humor.

About this edition

• Publisher: Lonely Planet
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1743219083
• ISBN 13: 9781743219089
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160