Designed in the vein of Animals Up Close
, this oversize reference book features striking digital images of dinosaurs, along with abundant information about them and the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods in which they thrived. Readers can get up close and personal with a variety of species: a web-footed Nothosaurus
's dimpled skin looks real enough to touch, and the blue and red feathers of a Deinonychus
seem as though they could ripple in the wind. Action scenes like that of Cryolophosaurus
looming over the splayed corpse of a plant-eating dinosaur, offer visual excitement, while diagrams, sidebars with dino-stats, and photographs of fossils emphasize the educational. Ages 8–up. (Apr.)
