Dinosaurs: Facts at Your Fingertips

by D.K. Publishing

Destined to be toted in school backpacks everywhere, this new encyclopedia series for young readers contains on-the-spot information in children's favorite subject areas. Kids love facts: they want to know about the biggest, fastest, tallest, and oldest everything. Full of instant information, these books feature a fresh design that is sure to appeal to the middle grade audience. These single-subject guides offer a unique catalog-style presentation, which clearly lays out individual subcategories with concise and punchy text covering all of the essential information on whatever topic is at-hand.

"Pocket Genius: Dinosaurs" profiles more than 140 prehistoric animals and features fossils, skeletons, anatomy and history as well as species including dinosaurs on land, winged pterosaurs in the sky and a range of sea monsters in the ocean.

Supports the Common Core State Standards.

Genres: Science, Nonfiction, Dinosaurs, Reference, Childrens

160 pages, Hardcover

First published May 21, 2012

About the author

Dorling Kindersley (DK) is a British multinational publishing company specializing in illustrated reference books for adults and children in 62 languages. It is part of Penguin Random House, a consumer publishing company jointly owned by Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA and Pearson PLC. Bertelsmann owns 53% of the company and Pearson owns 47%.

Established in 1974, DK publishes a range of titles in genres including travel (including Eyewitness Travel Guides), arts and crafts, business, history, cooking, gaming, gardening, health and fitness, natural history, parenting, science and reference. They also publish books for children, toddlers and babies, covering such topics as history, the human body, animals and activities, as well as licensed properties such as LEGO, Disney and DeLiSo, licensor of the toy Sophie la Girafe. DK has offices in New York, London, Munich, New Delhi, Toronto and Melbourne.

Source: Wikipedia.

Reviews

[Amanda · Rating 5 out of 5]

I purchased this book at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in DC. I had a moment while staring at their T-Rex skeleton and needed to preserve that day. Reading this book was like revisiting that beautiful museum.

[mtnmilk · Rating 5 out of 5]

wow. fascinating. i will take a seminar next quarter

[Becky]

156 pages of dino factoids with realistic renderings of dinosaur features. Great glossary, table of contents. Includes other prehistoric reptiles

[Luan Topham-Brown · Rating 4 out of 5]

Learnt lots of interesting facts about dinosaurs, great book :)

[Becky]

156 pages of dino factoids with realistic renderings of dinosaur features. Great glossary, table of contents. Includes other prehistoric reptiles