This is a great book that anyone who has an interest in dinosaurs will love. It is geared for junior grade (9 and up) students as younger ones will not be able to read it. There are a huge number of facts given in this book, but it is organized in a way that is easy to follow. The illustrations are great. They use images of fossils and museum displays as well as illustrations. Within the ten chapters were sections entitled Dino Details, Facts Files, and In Your Newsfeed that give the reader some fun, informative facts. This is not a book that a child could consume in one sitting, there is so much information, they would need to take their time to take it all in.

There is a pronunciation key at the end of the book which would be very helpful for anyone not familiar with all the types of dinosaurs. The resources listed, other books and websites, would be great for the reader or teacher. If a family is looking to visit a museum with dinosaurs, they even list several of them at the back of the book. This would be a great book to have in public, school, class and even family libraries.

I received a copy of this book from the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

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Animal Planet Chapter Books: Dinosaurs! by Animal Planet & Lori Stein is such an awesome book for people of all ages! I can't say enough about this book. Each page has wonderful and colorful, dramatic pictures that will blow you away! There is trivia scattered throughout and the book is fun. The book doesn't talk down to the reader, just gives the facts in a fun and interesting way that keeps the reader hooked. I learned some things myself. The book explains what makes a dinosaur a dinosaur, discusses the eras, the various sizes of dinos, the smartest, the pack hunters, the oddities, the armor and weapons built in, and more. Did you know some dinos have built in shades, there is a Pinocchio Rex, T.Rex bites 3 times stronger than the great white shark, and T Rex is really smart? The book discusses the emergence of feathers and flight, the Gentle Giants, the study of the dino poop, yes I said poop, the food they ate and their teeth, eggs to hatching to the herd, and so much more all with those awesome pictures. This is a very wonderful book for any kid or adult that likes dinosaurs or science! Thanks NetGalley for suggesting this book! ( )

Animal Planet’s Dinosaurs! by Lori Stein is a great way to teach kids all about dinosaurs, not that you really need too. Kids often know more about the titanic dragons of yester-millenia better than adults. Sadly, a love for dinosaurs seems to lose its lustre as we grow older. Not me, thankfully, and I've passed that on to my cublings. Like the Animal Planet: Unusual, etc Animals, we read this as a family. Afterwards, I pulled out my own fossil and artefact collection and we discussed the fossils. Half of the young ones were horrified by the coprolites. The others were fascinated. Now they want to go fossil hunting...

This book is stuffed with all kinds of great information, and plenty of illustrations. There's a glossary/pronunciation guide in the back to help with the Latin oriented names. I love that this book prompted intellectual interest and discussion. The older cublings even took some of our more 'adult’ books on dinosaurs to read. Our extended family has a very large library, with a fairly extensive natural history section.

I would have liked to have seen greater expansion in each of the sections. I believe a bit more detail would not be amiss. Overall, though, this was a good first look book, and a great addition to any kid’s library.

🎻🎻🎻🎻 Highly recommended, especially for kids who are wild about dinosaurs, and natural history. Also as an educational tool for middle-graders. ( )