Stegosaurus And Other Plated Dinosaurs

Dinosaurs like Stegosaurus had stiff plates on their bodies. Some used their plates to heat themselves up or cool themselve off. Others had plates to scare off predators. Bold images, colorful maps, and interesting facts take readers back to a time when these scaly herbivores walked the earth.

Many dinosaurs from around the world had plates attached to their backs. Some of their plates were as small as a dime, while others were as large as the lid of a trash can. Learn how they used their plates to survive.

Paleontologist Peter Dodson introduces young readers to STEGOSAURUS, a plated dinosaur. Full-color illustrations bring this dinosaur’s word to life, showing its head, legs, legs, and environment up close. A great book for beginning readers and anyone who loves dinosaurs.

Provides detailed facts about the prehistoric stegosaurus, written in graphic novel format, and describes how it lived and hunted.

Why does that dinosaur have sharp plates down its back? Readers will learn the answer to this question and more as they explore the world of plated dinosaurs. Readers may be familiar with the Stegosaurus, but they’ll also meet some of its spiky friends such as Huayangosaurus and Crichtonsaurus. Readers will enjoy exciting text and fast facts, which are perfectly paired with a detailed illustration of each dinosaur. Anatomy, behavior, and diet are just a few of the subjects that are covered. Readers are sure to leave this book with a sharp understanding of these plated dinosaurs!

This exciting new series enables easy comparing and contrasting between groups and species of prehistoric animals that lived 65-250 million years ago. The books are full of interesting scientific facts written in simple language for early readers to understand. The facts are supported by colourful illustrations and diagrams to fascinate all young dinosaur lovers.

This title introduces readers to the big and plated dinosaur, the Stegosaurus. More information about what it looked like, what it ate, and where its fossils have been found will be discovered in this book. This series is at a Level 1 and is written specifically for beginning readers. Aligned to Common Core standards & correlated to state standards. Dash! is an imprint of Abdo Zoom, a division of ABDO.

Read about how each of these well-known dinosaurs might have spent its day.

There are many reasons why the prehistoric world captures the imagination of children, but dinosaurs certainly play a major role. It only makes sense, therefore, to open the Prehistoric World series with an investigation of that world's best-known inhabitants: dinosaurs. Painting a vivid picture of life as we think it then existed, each book features a different type of dinosaur, focusing on a well-known member of a particular group but also discussing its relatives and other similar creatures. Coverage includes the animal's physical characteristics, the world in which it lived, how it lived, and the secrets of its daily survival.

Professor Pete knows lots about all sorts of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals. Learn all about plated dinosaurs from pronouncing their difficult names to facts about their weight, what they eat, how fast they can run and where they used to live in the world. Children will soon become dinosaur experts. Following the same style as Nora the Naturalist's Animals and Safari Sam's Wild Animals, Professor Pete's Prehistoric Animals are brilliant introductory books for young readers aged 5+ in the high-interest area of dinosaurs.