Washoe County Library System

Provides a close-up look at some of the dinosaurs that lived during the Jurassic Period.

Accompanied by picture word strips and labels to reinforce vocabulary, simple text and color photographs introduce young readers to dinosaurs.

Introduces 12 different dinosaurs, each of whom believes it's the greatest dinosaur of all because of its superior characteristics.

Ever since Jurassic Park we thought we knew how dinosaurs lived their lives. In this remarkable new book, Brian J. Ford reveals that dinosaurs were, in fact, profoundly different from what we believe, and their environment was unlike anything we have previously thought. In this meticulous and absorbing account, Ford reviews the latest scientific evidence to show that the popular accounts of dinosaurs' lives contain ideas that are no more than convenient...

Find out what the dinosaurs ate in prehistoric times.

Presents some of the mysteries surrounding dinosaurs, including such questions as what sounds they made, how they laid their eggs, how they cared for their young, whether they were cold-blooded or warm-blooded, and why they died out.

Discusses the physical characteristics, habitat, food, relatives, and extinction of this flying reptile that lived on the earth during the age of dinosaurs.

Describes what has been learned about the physical features, behavior, and surroundings of the long-extinct stegosaurus. Stegosaurus had a brain the size of a walnut, but it could still defend itself. In this book, you will see what Stegosaurus looked like and how it lived. You will learn what the weather was like when Stegosaurus was alive. You will see what other animals lived at that time. The world of long ago will seem as close as your backyard....