Pre-Owned Dinosaur Mountain : Digging into the Jurassic Age 9780374317898

from AbigailAdams26

Deborah Kogan Ray - whose many excellent picture-book biographies include such titles as Wanda Gág: The Girl Who Lived to Draw, To Go Singing Through the World: The Childhood of Pablo Neruda, and Down the Colorado: John Wesley Powell, the One-Armed Explorer - turns her attention to the late 19th,...

from jenniferm14

Exceptionally illustrated, this informational book is bound to keep kids engaged as they read about the uncovering of over 350 tons of fossils. This book would be a great fit as a mentor text for informational writing.

from scote23

It has been a little while since I read this book, but I remember thinking that it was just eh for me. It was not what I was expecting.

from matthewbloome

This is another astounding nonfiction text by Deborah Kogan Ray. It does a fabulous job chronicling the lives of not only Earl Douglass, the main focus of the story, but also Andrew Carnegie and the other paleontologists involved in the Bone Wars. The anecdote about the first fossil display being...

from matthewbloome

This is another astounding nonfiction text by Deborah Kogan Ray. It does a fabulous job chronicling the lives of not only Earl Douglass, the main focus of the story, but also Andrew Carnegie and the other paleontologists involved in the Bone Wars. The anecdote about the first fossil display being...