Bill Nye the Science Guy's Great Big Dinosaur Dig - Hardcover

Bill Nye; Ian G. Saunders

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786805420 ISBN 13: 9780786805426

Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children, 2002

Synopsis

Ancient dinosaurs lived over 65 million years ago, but they have fascinated human beings since the first fossil discovery. In this book, science expert and television celebrity Bill Nye the Science Guy tells us how dinosaurs become fossils, how they must have behaved, and why we call their descendants “birds.” Featuring over thirty different species of dinosaurs, each chapter has an easy-to-follow experiment that readers can do at home.

About this title

From School Library Journal:

Grade 5-6-The Science Guy returns with a chatty, informative book on an ever-popular subject. Rather than homing in on individual species, the conversational text discusses the formation of fossils and their subsequent retrieval, bird evolution, and Pangaea, among other topics. Each brief chapter includes an activity that ranges from painting camouflage balloons to chipping a "fossil" chicken bone from a plaster of paris matrix. Colorful illustrations, diagrams, and data boxes abound, many accompanied by photos of Nye clad in his signature blue lab coat or casual field shirt. The "Ancient Dinosaur Index" is not, alas, an index to the content of the text but rather a listing of all of the dinosaurs mentioned in the book, shown in the illustrations, or cited in the time line that trundles along the bottom of the pages. This "index" includes name, pronunciation and meaning of name, size, and whether the critter was a saurischian or an ornithischian. With a dozen activities/experiments for hands-on science, this book will attract dinophiles and classroom teachers alike. It's more tightly focused than Bill Nye the Science Guy's Big Blue Ocean (Hyperion, 1999).
Patricia Manning, formerly at Eastchester Public Library, NY
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0786805420
• ISBN 13: 9780786805426
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 48
• Illustrator: Michael Koelsch