Peterson First Guide to Dinosaurs - Softcover

Peterson, Roger Tory; Kricher, John C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0395971969 ISBN 13: 9780395971963

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1999

Synopsis

Features more than one hundred dinosaurs and explains how recent scientific discoveries have changed our view of the way these fascinating creatures lived.

About this title

About the Author:

Roger Tory Peterson, one of the world's greatest naturalists, received every major award for ornithology, natural science, and conservation as well as numerous honorary degrees, medals, and citations, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The Peterson Identification System has been called the greatest invention since binoculars.

From Library Journal:

It is a rather silly idea to design a guide to dinosaurs in the same format as a field guide to living animals. For one thing, the only place a nonspecialist sees dinosaurs is in a museum, where they are likely to be labeled clearly already. The book's small pictures are not very enticing, and the brief text leaves a lot of questions unanswered. Also, the guide includes irrelevant sections about prehistoric mammals, human ancestors, and other nondinosaur creatures. Even at this inexpensive price, the book won't add as much to a dinosaur collection as would a really good picture book like Patricia Lauber's The News About Dinosaurs (Bradbury Pr., 1989).
-Amy Brunvand, Fort Lewis Coll. Lib., Durango
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0395971969
• ISBN 13: 9780395971963
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128
• Illustrator: Morrison Gordon