Dinosaur Atlas: An Amazing Journey Through a Lost World [With CDROM]

by John Woodward, John Malam, John Malm, et al.

Book Overview

Follow the most remarkable episode in prehistory in this all-in-one compendium of everything dinosaur. This volume marries the very latest in paleontology with an easily accessible atlas format to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Spiral-bound
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0756622352
• ISBN13: 9780756622350
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 2.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 10.5" x 12.1"
• Age Range: 10 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 12

Customer Reviews

A great dinosaur discovery--

My grandson and I discovered this book at our local library. What a great find. We checked the well worn book out and discovered an incredibly well organized book with all the dinosaur facts, pictures, and maps of where the dinosaurs roamed. When it was time to return the book to the library, I decided to purchase the book for my grandson. I'm sure my grandson will refer to this "GEM" of a reference book for many years.

Love it!

My 5 year old loves this. He wants to spend the day on the computer with the disc and the rest of the time with the book. I was afraid it was too advanced for his age, but that has not been the case.

Dinosaurs

This is an excellent book and has lots of interesting overlays to make it more interesting.

Dinosaur Atlas by DK Publishing

I purchased this book for my 6 year old Nephew for Christmas, and he absolutely loves it. It is very detailed and informative, and besides all of that, he loves dinosaurs.

A great guide for teaching young paleotologists about how and where dinosaurs lived

I have been hooked on dinosaurs every since my great aunt took me to the Great Hall of Dinosaurs at the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University. This was so long ago the apatosaurus was known as a brontosaurus because they had the head of a camposaurus sitting on top of the giant skeleton that dominates the hall, along with Rudolph Zallinger's "The Age of Reptiles" mural. One of the neat things there is a triceratops on which a faux skin has been placed on one side. I mention that because in this "Dinosaur Atlas" authors John Malam and John Woodward, along with consultant Professor Michael Benton, go so far beyond that display that it makes me want to laugh with delight. Finding out about dinosaurs in the 21st century is proving to be a lot of fun. This "Dinosaur Atlas" has main maps that show major fossil locations and list some of the prehistoric animals found there, followed by pages that provide additional information about both the locations and the animals. The section opener pages consist of six main sections corresponding to the continents (Antarctica is included with Australia). Color-coded silhouettes on the maps locate where prehistoric animals have been found, with the numbers corresponding with the silhouettes in the profile list. Each main section also has an artwork scene that shows not only dinosaurs but other animals of interest, as well as what the environment was like at that time. Today's Landscape information boxes compare the present-day world with that of the dinosaurs, and Fact Boxes throughout the book provide additional information on the topic, while Biography Boxes reveal the people behind the finds. There are also Did You Know? boxes that reveal interesting facts about a dinosaur or a fossil site. You will also find a transparent overlay page in each section, with a prehistoric animal of special interest. The overlay provides further information, enabling readers to see the skeletal structure. For example, the section on North America identifies the Morrison Formation, a vast area of sandstone formed during the Jurassic Period that left Allosaurus, Ceratosaurus, Diplodocus, and Stegosaurus skeletons in the area of what is now Dinosaur National Monument. That is one of six locations highlighted in the section, and hopefully every young would-be palentologist who reads this book will have the opportunity to visit at least one of the places described. The section also focuses on Corythosaurus, the most common hadrosaur (duck-bill) in these areas. The overlay is of a skeleton of an Allosaurus, accompanied by a comparison of its skull, with the muscles and then the skin added to it. The introductory section of the atlas provides an overview on how to use it, a look at life on earth and the rise of the reptiles, and then at the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous worlds. Malam and Woodward also address the question of What is a Dinosaur? and explain the basics of the fossil record. They also