Dinosaurs In Your Backyard

Although they disappeared long ago, dinosaurs live on in children's imaginations. A young boy playfully imagines the dinosaur who hatched in the backyard and grew to the size of the family car. . . . An appealing combination of fantasy and reality.--Kirkus Reviews. Full-color illustrations.

Examines the present knowledge and theories about dinosaurs, including the strong possibility that they are the forerunners of birds.

A young boy imagines what it was like long ago when a dinosaur lived in his back yard.

This funky and fantastic children's book delves into the imagination of every dinosaur-loving child whose dreams come true when they find a dinosaur in their very own backyard! However, there is more to this dinosaur than meets the eye... Written in catchy rhyming verse, with a colourful fun-loving dinosaur in the starring role, children will be engaged, entertained, and left giggling at the relatable plot twist at the end.

For fans of Shark Lady and from the New York Times bestselling illustrator of Dr. Fauci comes the incredible true story of a girl who discovered dinosaur bones in her own backyard and, after years of persistence, helped uncover one of the most exciting paleontological discoveries of our time. There’s an extraordinary secret hidden just beneath Ruth Mason’s feet. The year is 1905, and Ruth is a prairie girl living in South Dakota. She has no way of knowing that millions of years ago, her family farm was once home to scores of dinosaurs. Until one day, when Ruth starts finding clues to the past: strange rocks and rubble scattered all across her land. They’re dinosaur fossils—but she doesn’t know that yet, either. It will take many years of collecting these clues, and many, many questions, but Ruth’s curiosity will one day help uncover thousands of fossils all across her land. New York Times bestselling illustrator Alexandra Bye’s vibrant illustrations bring to life this inspiring and exciting debut picture book from award-winning journalist Julia Lyon.

When Rex plants a dinosaur garden to attract dinosaurs, an unexpected thing happens.

A newly hatched dinosaur wonders what he may grow into, a strong dinosaur with sharp claws and long teeth or one with skin like armor and a long spiked tail. On board pages.

Copyright date 2006, published as #5 in the Ziggy and the Black Dinosaurs series.

To this day, dinosaurs remain a never-ending source of fascination to children, who just can't get enough of these compelling creatures. Illustrations, picturing over 60 dinosaur types (including some new discoveries that appear here for the first time in a children's book), maps, and a guide to each individual species--plus an overall introduction to fossils--tell youngsters how and why all the dinosaurs developed as they did. Answer exactly the types of question kids want to know: How big were they? What did they eat? Where did they live? What do their names mean? This lively trip back to the Age of the Dinosaurs, from its beginnings in the Triassic period to the great extinction at the end of the Cretaceous, is guided by one of the major authorities in the field, Dr. Thomas Holtz, vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Maryland, whose specialty is the study of carnivorous dinosaurs.