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2) Fossil
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Packed with striking photography, Eyewitness Fossil explores the creatures and plants that lived long ago. Become an eyewitness to the natural treasures found in rocks in this picture-led reference guide that will take you on a visual tour of all things fossils. Children will be mesmerized by the bones, teeth, and plants from long ago that have all been turned to rock. This beautifully illustrated guide for kids aged 9+ gives an insight into how...
Author
Publisher
Weston Woods
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 sound disc (ca. 16 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (unpaged : col. ill. ; 24 cm.)
Language
English
Description
With a lively rhyming text and vibrant paper collage illustrations, author-artist Barner shakes the dust off the bones found in museums to bring dinosaurs back to life.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
33 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 25 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
A giant meteor blasts an enormous crater into Earth's surface, causing the end of what scientists call the Age of Dinosaurs. Here are the most recent theories about the history of dinosaurs, along with amazing facts about dinosaur discoveries. Gail Gibbons discusses the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods and many of the non-bird dinosaurs that lived during each of those times. Each dinosaur is described with lots of detail for aspiring paleontologists,...
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 7
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1996
Physical Desc
67 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
The magic tree house transports Jack and Annie on a mission to the Ice Age where they encounter Cro-Magnons, cave bears, sabertooth tigers, and woolly mammoths.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition
Physical Desc
404 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A sweeping narrative scientific history that tells the epic story of the dinosaurs, examining their origins, their habitats, their extinction, and their living legacy.
9) Big tree
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
525 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
"Sycamore seed siblings Merwin and Louise must use their wits and imaginations to navigate a mysterious and often dangerous world, filled with talking plants, monsters, meteors, and the fear of never finding the right conditions to set down roots and become big trees."--
Author
Publisher
Cider Mill Press Book Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
144 pages : color illustrations ; 28 x 34 cm
Language
English
Description
Features information and illustrations of nearly 140 species of dinosaur, including the latest discoveries in the field of paleontology.
Author
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Aren't you curious about what Earth was like long ago? What creatures lived before us? What happened to the dinosaurs? Curious about Fossils explains why and where fossils form and looks at the colorful lives and important discoveries of some of the great early fossil hunters and collectors. Then the adventure continues into modern times, where scientists on fossil hunts in places like North Dakota's Hell Creek Formation use computers and other technology...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1993
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
281 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Excerpts from Michener's other novels are collected in this single volume in which he re-creates the planet Earth as it existed millions of years ago when dinosaurs flourished, describes the vast forces that created the geological wonders we know today, and explains how in the millennia-old struggle for survival, some species endured and evolved while others disappeared.
Author
Series
Secret explorers volume 4
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In The Secret Explorers and the [Jurassic Rescue], dinosaur expert Tamiko and geology expert Cheng travel back to the age of the dinosaurs in an effort to rescue a dinosaur egg from destruction. However, to save the egg, the Secret Explorers first have to use all their courage and skills to outsmart a fierce Allosaurus, rescue a baby Stegosaurus, and find a way to attract an Archaeopteryx. Tamiko and Cheng soon find that, to succeed, they need to...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
1989
Edition
First edition
Physical Desc
347 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"{An} extraordinary book . . . Mr. Gould is an exceptional combination of scientist and science writer . . . He is thus exceptionally well placed to tell these stories, and he tells them with fervor and intelligence."-James Gleick, New York Times Book Review
High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago called the Burgess Shale. It holds the remains of an ancient sea where dozens of strange creatures lived-a...
18) Dinosaur empire!
Author
Series
Earth before us volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
126 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ms. Lernin, a retired paleontologist, helps fifth-grader Ronnie study for a quiz on dinosaurs by taking her on a guided tour of the Mesozoic Era.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (40 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Journey 80 million years back in time to an age when an astonishing assortment of creatures swam the prehistoric oceans. Computer animation, interwoven with ground-breaking fossil finds, recreates the lives of marine reptiles and predators.
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