(Part 2) Best children dinosaur books according to redditors
We found 274 Reddit comments discussing the best children dinosaur books. We ranked the 155 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
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Okay, so if it's non-fiction you want, then I know just what you need.
If you want a good overview, Mysterious America by Loren Coleman, who's more or less the godfather of cryptozoology, is a superb first entry for anybody interested in cryptozoology. I especially liked the sections on "Panthera Atrox." There are sections on phantom ships and other more mystical elements of the Fortean, and some might find its focus on North America a bit limited, but I'd still recommend it.
Mysterious America: The Ultimate Guide to the Nation's Weirdest Wonders, Strangest Spots, and Creepiest Creatures
I'd also recommend Coleman's "field guides." These don't go into quite as much detail as Mysterious America, but they do provide a rather intriguing look at the diversity in sightings of animals that do not belong. The Field Guide to Bigfoot and Other Mystery Primates and The Field Guide to Lake Monsters, Sea Serpents and Other Mystery Denizens of the Deep are useful, as is the similar, if somewhat dated, Cryptozoology A To Z: The Encyclopedia of Loch Monsters, Sasquatch, Chupacabras, and Other Authentic Mysteries of Nature.
The Field Guide to Bigfoot and Other Mystery Primates
The Field Guide to Lake Monsters, Sea Serpents and Other Mystery Denizens of the Deep
Cryptozoology A To Z: The Encyclopedia of Loch Monsters, Sasquatch, Chupacabras, and Other Authentic Mysteries of Nature
Coleman's written some other books as well, focused on individual cryptids. Bigfoot: The True Story of Apes in America and Mothman and Other Curious Encounters are among the most notable.
Bigfoot: The True Story of Apes in America
Mothman and Other Curious Encounters
Moving on, I found another book that functions as a good overview of cryptozoology is Jerome Clark's Unexplained!: Strange Sightings, Incredible Occurrences, and Puzzling Physical Phenomena. Clark gets into a bit more Fortean elements than Coleman does, but his book also includes some cryptids that Coleman rarely pays attention to--including living dinosaurs.
Unexplained!: Strange Sightings, Incredible Occurrences, and Puzzling Physical Phenomena
If you have a particular taste for feline cryptids--surviving Panthera Artox, surviving saber-toothed cats, whatever the heck the ones is--then I must recommend the writings of Karl Shuker. Shuker is a prolific writer, and to list his books would take up a lot more space, but if I had to choose one, I'd recommend Extraordinary Animals.
Extraordinary Animals: Revisited
You didn't mention whether you were an American, but Stackpole Books has a "Monsters Of" series that has the folklore of individual states in the United States.
Following up on that, if you live in California, or if you have a fondness for sea monsters, then you may also like the book Mysterious Sea Monsters of California's Central Coast.
Mysterious Sea Monsters of California's Central Coast
Now, I know you said you weren't looking for novels, but if you have kids of your own, or you have younger relatives who might like the material, there's always the works of Roland Smith. Sasquatch and the "Cryptid Quartet" which includes Cryptid Hunters, Tentacles, Chupacabra, and Mutation are all great reads for middle readers, or for the young at heart.
Sasquatch
Cryptid Hunters
Tentacles
Chupacabra
Mutation
Maybe she'd like to read Captain Raptor and the Moon Mystery! 5 stars, for only $12! Leave a shipping address and one of us can buy it.
Robert Mash wrote a book called "How to Keep Dinosaurs," endorsed by Richard Dawkins on this topic. Great little book that ranks and gives helpful tips about keeping different genera of popular and relatively obscure dinosaurs. Worth spending a buck or two on as a Christmas gift and reading yourself before passing off.
A recent good book is End of the Megafauna by Ross MacPhee, which examines the disappearance of most of the great beasts of the Cenozoic.
Two recent picture-heavy books: the Princeton Field Guide to Prehistoric Mammals and National Geographic: Prehistoric Mammals. The second is aimed at a younger audience but still has plenty of meat for adult readers.
Speaking of younger readers, John Rafferty's The Cenozoic Era: Age of Mammals will give you a good grounding in the geological history of the Cenozoic and what was happening around the world. It's aimed at high school and college students but doesn't at all talk down. Definitely worth the read.
Horned Armadillos and Rafting Monkeys is a deep dive on the isolated fauna of Cenozoic South America.
For a better sense of the actual fossil record, see Bruce Stinchcomb's photo-heavy Cenozoic Fossils books for the Paleogene and the Neogene.
The Magic School Bus in the Time of the Dinosaurs
http://www.amazon.com/The-Magic-School-Time-Dinosaurs/dp/0590446894
I grew up really enjoying the Magic Treehouse series.
Here's 1-28 for $80 which is pricey so I'd maybe pick up the first couple and see if they enjoy it
https://www.amazon.com/Magic-Tree-House-Boxed-Books/dp/0375849912
You are so awesome and generous for thinking of gifting this forward!
I would love a new Kindle fire for my kids. My parents bought them a cheap Android tablet last Christmas and they loved playing learning games and were really into getting new books for me or my husband to read to them. The only problem is that since it was a cheap tablet, it's pretty much already a brick at this point. It won't hold a charge and takes forever to load anything.
If I'm picked I'm sure they would love this book http://www.amazon.com/Mysteries-Talking-Stepping-Stone-ebook/dp/B002GKGBB4/ref=sr_1_57?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1371322049&sr=1-57 as they are both very into dinosaurs!
Oh my GOSH this is so fuuuun, I wish I had kids to make baskets for, I love this stuff! So here are my go-tos:
I have TONS more ideas, let me know if you need more! ^u^
A couple books I can give off the top of my head that I have would be
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I just realized you didn't really ask for dinosaur books but more future animals field guides, not really sure why I did that lmaoo still check those out
There's a Magic School Bus book about dinosaurs!
https://www.amazon.com/Magic-School-Bus-Time-Dinosaurs/dp/0590446894
Oh, like handbill sizes! That's a great idea! Thank you!
Martha Dreams of Dinosaurs is a kids book, for sure. And it's wonderful. I bought a copy for my 3-year-old-daughter and she loves it.
This Road Must Go Somewhere (And Other Things I Told Myself) is not a kids book. It's a book about suicide and grief. It's good, but it's raw. $8 from every $10 book goes directly to NAMI.
Buy My Book: Not Because You Should, But Because I'd Like Some Money is stupid and fun, but only appropriate for anyone old enough to buy it with a credit card.
Not Pictured on the poster, but at the event, will also be The Status Game II: Dashboards and Gages which is about how people connect with others.
I don't know of anything great for kids on fossil crocodylians, but there are definitely kids' books on living alligators and a few on crocodiles. There are a few on Sarcosuchus like this and this They don't get the press that dinosaurs get.
A friend gave me this pop-up book as a gift and it has a couple crocodylomorphs in it (extinct non-crown-group crocs). That whole series seems to hit on fossil taxa that other books don't. The book itself is a little fragile but it's really gorgeous.
This book is a good basic reference on all the living species. It's not a kids' book, and it's advanced for a young child.
Its free in Canada. https://www.amazon.ca/Alfred-Time-Traveling-Dinosaur-ebook/dp/B0157LS2EM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1501068968&sr=8-1&keywords=alfred+time
Id love for you to check out my first book - I wrote and Illustrated it myself (in Sharpie!) It’s for both genders. It’s called Martha Dreams of Dinosaurs. I welcome feedback. Hardcopy and paperback, here’s a link to Amazon: Martha Dreams of Dinosaurs
Martha is a small ladybug, who lives in a small home, and bakes delicious small cakes. Everything about her is small… however at night, when Martha goes to sleep in her little bed, tucked under her little blankets, cuddled up with her little head on her little pillow, Martha dreams of BIG THINGS. She dreams of the biggest animals to ever walk the Earth. Martha dreams of dinosaurs! Join Martha as she plays with Velociraptors, swims with the Mosasaur, roars with the mighty Tyrannosaurus Rex, and has big fun with more prehistoric giants. She knows that no matter how small you are, you can always dream big.
Thanks for the opportunity! I really appreciate it.
Edit: on the mobile amazon app there doesn’t seem to be an option to ‘look inside’, but on the regular website you can view some book pages.
http://www.amazon.com/How-Keep-Dinosaurs-Robert-Mash/dp/0297843478
Seems to be. But there's no reviews! No description!
A few possibilities:
Illustrated Encyclopedia Of Prehistoric Life
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Animals: In Nature and Myth
National Geographic Prehistoric Mammals
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Princeton Field Guide, National Geographic Prehistoric Mammals, and The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Creatures (this one: https://www.amazon.com/Illustrated-Encyclopedia-Dinosaurs-Prehistoric-Creatures/dp/0785828605 ) are all good. Also look for Mauricio Anton's Sabertooth, Wang's Dogs: Their Fossil Relatives, Prothero's Rhinoceros Giants, and Horned Armadillos and Rafting Monkeys for more specialized works. There's quite a few other books that involve prehistoric mammals as well.
I mean, the idea is awesome. The results ... meh. You get more cohesive outputs from this children’s mix and match book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0789210614/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_Hs2VDbB81JQT0
maybe its Dinosaurs Before Dark. Its a magic Treehouse book.
http://www.amazon.com/Dinosaurs-Before-Dark-Magic-House/dp/0679824111
Ten little dinosaurs
Edwina, the dinosaur who didn't know she was extinct
How do dinosaurs say goodnight?
The enormous egg
found a newer edition after all!
My daughter was(is) a big fan of Little Blue Truck.
We also like Goodnight Gorilla and Peek a Who
For ones that can grow with her, I'd recommend:
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus
Press Here
How do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight
Honestly, anything by Mo Willems or Jane Yolen is going to be good! I have some books on my daughter's gift list too.
For more suggestions, a friend of mine is a librarian and has a TON of books pinned on Pinterest. Here's just one of her boards.
For us? My daughter can always use more books. We have a ton, but she loves them. I think I'm most interested in The Day the Crayons Quit for her right now. It looks really good and funny and we like to read a little above her level to her anyway (she's almost 4 so at the bottom of this one.)
Green eggs and ham.
So far I've found flip-o-saurus and flip-o-storic but I can't find the one you're talking about though I recall it from forever ago!
http://www.amazon.com/Flip---saurus-Britta-Drehsen/dp/0789210614/
http://www.amazon.com/Flip-storic-Britta-Drehsen/dp/0789210991/
EDIT: I found a German version is this the same one?
http://www.amazon.com/Krogufant-Klapp-Bilderbuch-German-Sara-Ball/dp/3760775403/
I agree with the other poster, it's probably Dinotopia, but the other book that popped into my mind was one of the Magic Tree House books, Dinosaurs Before Dark.
yeah sort of...There was one with big bulging googly eyes coming out of the cover. The book was about dinosaurs of some sorts.
edit. FOUND IT!
Cryptid Hunters?
https://www.amazon.com/Cryptid-Hunters-Roland-Smith/dp/0786851627
I would love, love, love to participate in this! I am the biggest bookworm ever and am trying my hardest to instill my own love of reading into my kids as well. Thanks so much for offering.
Tyler is 12 years old and loves to read. He's really into Goosebumps right now: http://www.amazon.com/Goosebumps-51-Beware-Snowman-Stine/dp/0439863937/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1415987032&sr=1-1&keywords=r.l.+stine+goosebumps
Grace just turned 9 and used to be a year behind in reading. Thanks to her newfound interest in Junie B. Jones, she has made it back up to grade level this year! I'm really proud of her: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0375828095/ref=gl_it_dp_o_pd_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=1AZJI66MPQOQK&coliid=I34LMOGJH0H0AJ
Alannah is 6 years old and is just starting to learn how to read on her own. She's so proud of herself learning how to sound out new words and wants to read Berenstain Bears books every night before bed: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0394856392/ref=gl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=38RMI6VNCC844&coliid=IP8MH5HLD4Q55
Dylan is 4 years old and OBSESSED with dinosaurs! I read him a bedtime story every night and he always requests one of his (few) dinosaur books. A new dino book would make him so thrilled (and mommy, because I get tired of reading the same ones over and over, ha ha ;)): http://www.amazon.com/dp/0312513062/ref=gl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=VOUQJGJQ8HUZ&coliid=I6JE7CBLD009K
My son started the percy jackson books around that age - the kindle editions were less intimidating at the time than the actual books (they looked "too big to ever finish" according to my son at the time). I read them first and found them to be a lot of fun as well - the later books get more intense but if he doesn't read super duper fast, it should work out fine.
He also enjoyed reading a few "decide your destiny" books - Clone wars and the [Origami Yoda series] (http://www.amazon.com/star-wars-clone-decide-destiny/dp/1409302962) - those are definitely more silly than challenging. he is STILL reading those and getting the new ones as they come out (he's 10 now).. He loves anything the author of those books writes. Again - they aren't challenging, but he loves them.
He also read every single magic treehouse book that was available between the ages of 7 & 8.
I don't know if you have a kindle, but if you do, you can do the kindle owner's lending library (or whatever it is called) and "borrow" one book a month - so it's free and easy to test out different books. I took my son to the library and we spent an afternoon looking at all sorts of different books and figuring out what sort of stories peaked his interest.
Another person mentioned the spirit animal books - my nephew really enjoyed those. One of the authors Tui something, also wrote a dragon series that my son read last year called The wings of fire - it started out a little intense (a character dies right off the bat) but were fun books for him, but my son was a little older when he read them - but i felt they were below his reading level.
Damn, imagine having someone spell stuff out for you in explicit detail and you still walk away thinking that. But it's okay champ, I know reading's hard. Here's one of my favorite books growing up. It's short poems so it should be a good starter. After that I'd recommend stuff like The Magic Treehouse series, really small and easy to digest with a little mystery if I remember right. After that you can probably move on to the Harry Potter series and some non-fiction books, but make sure you wait until you're ready. It'll take a bit but I believe in you :\^)