Dinosaurs Big and Small
by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld
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Introduces several different dinosaurs, looks at how they varied in size and weight, and explains how scientists have learned about the prehistoric creatures.Tags
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This book tells readers all about differnt types of sauropods, the largest dinosaurs. It also includes an example of medium and small dinosaurs. I really enjoyed how at the beginning of the book when they were explaining how large the dinosaur was, they lined up humans next to them. This gives children really great perspective. It also compares weight. Other comparisons include busses, elephants, and bananas.
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Discussing the wide variety of sizes in the dinosaur lexicon, Zoehfeld's simple text presents kids, school buses, and elephants as yardsticks for the measurement of a number of weighty sauropods and lesser lights.... Washburn's eye-catching illustrations... march step-by-step with the text. Included is a double-page lineup of all the mentioned saurians, with a brief note on each one that gives show more its scientific name, pronunciation, length, and weight. Brightly colored, informative, and on a cherished topic, the book is certain to gather no shelf-sitter dust. show less
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This attractive book from the Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science series discusses the sizes of various dinosaurs. ...both the text and the illustrations compare the prehistoric animals to more recognizable measures: a standard-size kid (4 feet tall, 75 pounds), the length of a school bus (30 feet), the weight of an elephant (5 tons). ... Just as vivid as that verbal image is Washburn's artwork, show more apparently done in pastels, which creates scenes that are sometimes naturalistic, sometimes fantastic. ... Well focused and very appealing. show less
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Dinosaurs Big and Small addresses in a child's terms just how big dinosaurs were, and it also teaches how to pronounce those difficult scientific names. ... This beautifully illustrated book addresses a child's need to understand relative size and it is very practical for a child because it relates size to things with which he is familiar. ... Although what the dinosaurs really looked like as show more far as color and skin texture is still a matter of conjecture, Lucia Washburn has created illustrations that are going to be very attractive to children. ... Dinosaurs Big and Small will be appreciated greatly by children from ages three to six. ... show less
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Kathleen Zoehfeld is a writer and editor of nonfiction children's books. She grew up in the Catskill Mountains, where she developed a passion for observing, reading and writing about nature. Zoehfeld is a former children's book editor and an award-winning author of many books for young people on natural history and scientific topics. (Bowker show more Author Biography) show less
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Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science (Level 1)
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