Day of the Dinosaurs by Stephen Brusatte

Day of the Dinosaurs Reviews

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  Tetiana Dzhyhar

  мейбі краща дитяча книга про динозаврів для дошкільного віку
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  Cindy

  I won this on a Goodreads giveaway. My son was so excited when I opened the box and out came a dinosaur book! He has been asking for a new dinosaur book, but he has so many it isn't easy to find one that covers anything new. Here he was able to learn more about some more obscure dinosaurs. He had me reading passages left and right. It is a huge hit!
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  Enrique Gutiérrez

  Great book to get started with the fascinating dinosaur world. My kid was going back and forth checking all references and understand the evolution. Remembered my early years when I learned about these magnificent reptiles. We (especially him) had a blast!
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  Mercedes McLean-Wheeler

  Loved the illustrations and the writing style. The subtle second person adventure component was very fun and I feel like I learned quite a bit about various dinosaurs.
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  Laura Salas

  I really liked the approach of this book. I initially thought it was a much shorter picture book, and when I picked it up and saw how much text there was, I planned to just skim it. But then I was drawn in to the 2nd-person adventure story: "Be careful! This is not an easy journey. Danger lurks around every corner...Always be alert, watch your back, and try to keep your distance from the dinosaurs." It's like a narrated ride at Disney World, with tons of cool facts thrown in!
  
  Where I felt let down was in the graphics. The art itself is cool. But the Scale sidebar on most spreads is confusing. First the spreads generally show one cohesive scene. But apparently the animals within the scene are not drawn in scale to each other. VERY confusing. And then the Scale box, using silhouettes to show sizes of animals relative to humans, is not well done, to me. Some of the dinos/creatures are flipped from how they are in the scene or positioned differently, and it took some puzzling out on some spreads to match the silhouettes with the animals as drawn in the scene.
  
  Also, I didn't read every word of the fact boxes, which there are tons of and which give all sorts of cool facts, still in 2nd person: "Troodon: The dog-sized Troodon moves fast, hides easily, and has such a large brain that it can outsmart any other dinosaur. Luckily for you, it usually picks on small animals, like lizards and frogs. It even eats plants. But you never know when a Troodon may decide to hunt something bigger..." Each fact box has a line of small dots connecting it to the dinosaur it's describing. This is a good thing, because a spread generally has 5-8 different species. But on page 65, there's an error in the graphics. The fact box about velociraptors, on a page showing several of them attacking a large herbivorous dino, points to the herbivore instead of the raptors. I could spot this, even with my limited dino knowledge. This makes me wonder if there are other errors I don't know enough to spot.
  
  So, I loved the approach, but I felt the graphics/design let down the book somewhat.
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  Thomas Cruz

  I selected this book because due to the fact that I am fascinated with dinosaurs. When I was a kid, I watched "Land Before Time" and loved dinosaurs. I like the fact that this book has a description of the different time spans in history in which dinosaurs appeared in. Each dinosaur listed includes a description about them that including facts such as their size, teeth, location, and different body parts like their skull and wings. The dinosaurs had more than one picture to be seen, which made the longer words and uncommon pronunciation easier to understand. The genre for this book is nature and wildlife since it deals with dinosaurs. The intended audience would be for intermediate grades from 3rd through 6th because of the unusual pronunciation of words and the more text on one page that differ from primary books. The fiction book that I paired this with is called "Danny and the Dinosaur Too Tall." In the nonfiction book, dinosaurs are viewed as dangerous and extinct. In fictional kids book, the dinosaur is a pet and is shown to be nice and well behaved. I think these too books differ a lot, but both deal with dinosaurs as the main focus.