Dinosaur Bones

Name: Dinosaur Bones
Brand: CHRONICLE BOOKS
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By: Bob Barner

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Hardcover | 7 September 2001 | Edition Number 1

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Hardcover
36 Pages

Age
0 - 12

Dimensions(cm)
25.1 x 25.7 x 1.1

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With a lively rhyming text and vibrant paper collage illustrations, author-artist Bob Barner shakes the dust off the dinosaur bones found in museums and reminds us that they once belonged to living, breathing creatures. Filled with fun dinosaur facts (a T. Rex skull can weigh up to 750 pounds!) and an informational "Dinometer," Dinosaur Bones is sure to make young dinosaur enthusiasts roar with delight. Along with the rhyming, read-aloud text comes nearly 30 fun and amazing facts about dinosaurs. Also included is a "Dinometer," describing information about different dinosaurs such as its height, weight and footprint size. Best-selling artist Bob Barner has been very well reviewed by magazines such as School Library Journal and Publishers Weekly. His other books have sold a total of over 100,000 copies: Dem Bones; Bugs! Bugs! Bugs!; To Everything; Walk the Dog Bob Barner is an active self-promoter and spends much of the year doing school visits and signings.

Industry Reviews

With its dazzling colors and big, simple, paper collage forms, this may draw fans of Byron Barton's "Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs "(1989) and "Bones, Bones, Dinosaur Bones "(1990), but it's strictly an also-ran. Between a lame, large-type rhyme at the top and several lines of commentary in smaller type below each scene, Barner ("Fish Wish", 2000, etc.) alternates skeletal and fleshed-out portraits of five popular dinosaurs. Problem is that the skeleton paired with Spinosaurus belongs to some other (unspecified) creature, and-even novice dino fans will puzzle over this one-all of the T. Rexes have flat, plant-eater teeth. Also, Barner will leave most readers none the wiser by rightly noting that some dinosaurs had hips like birds, and some like lizards, but neither showing nor explaining the difference. The design wins no points either; background colors are so saturated that some blocks of text are indistinct, and the "Dino-meter" at the end is not a measurement chart ("that "appears on the previous spread), but a table of general facts. Give this one a miss. "(Picture book/nonfiction. 5-7)" (Kirkus Reviews)

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