Colorado Kids Book Reviews

Title: National Geographic Dinosaurs
Author: Paul Barrett
Illustrator: Raul Martin
Publisher: Firecrest Books Ltd.
Number of pages: 192

Do you like dinosaurs? If so then you will love this book. Dinosaurs, from National Geographic is also great if you have a project on dinosaurs. It also has an index and table of contents, which is really helpful if you have a project due. Another great feature it has is that it has a different page for every dinosaur that has been discovered! On those pages it also has facts about that dinosaur, how big it was compared to an average sized human, name in Latin, pictures of the dinosaur, when it lived, and even countries it lived in! If you are a dinosaur fan then you might be interested in this book because it tells you places to see the remains of dinosaurs and even some dinosaur museums. And for those who are trying to figure out the reason dinosaurs became
extinct it even has a section for you! This book has over a page of interesting theories on how the dinosaurs
became extinct. The theories range from the dinosaurs became extinct because they were blinded from the sun's
rays to aliens took all of the dinosaurs in their spaceship and put them on Pluto! Do you like dinosaur movies? Well the back page of this book shows you recent or not so recent pictures of both new and old dinosaur films. It also tells you how close a certain film was to reality. A movie like "Dinosaur" from Disney was pretty close except that they mixed dinosaurs from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods together to make the plot better.

What I liked about this book was that it was very well organized and it had a lot of interesting information, but on the other hand in some parts it was hard and confusing to read so I would recommend this book for ages 10 and up. Overall, I really enjoyed reading this book and I would definitely recommend it. So if this review sounds good then go to your local library and check out National Geographic Dinosaurs! (October, 2001)