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This nonfiction board book (one of four in the Lift and Explore series) is filled with one of the animals kids love most: dinosaurs! They look mean, they look big, but most of all, they look fascinating—and the facts under the flaps attest to that.
Young dinosaur experts probably already know that “some dinosaurs used their tails as weapons,” as stated on the Armor and Weapons double-page spread, but they might not know that “Parasaurolophus had a crest made out of bony tubes. It used it like a trumpet in order to call out to other dinosaurs.” Other topics this book covers are defense and dinosaur family life. Meat eaters such as the Allosaurus and plant eaters such as the Diplodocus are given their own pages.
Bull’s colorful illustrations show a number of dinosaurs interacting in dynamic ways against realistic backgrounds. There is supplementary material in the back of the book (true or false and multiple choice questions), but the glossary lacks a pronunciation guide.
If you want to raise your children to love animals, this series of books will likely do the trick.
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Lift and Explore: Dinosaurs