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DINOSAURS, DINOSAURS by Byron Barton

DINOSAURS, DINOSAURS

by Byron Barton & illustrated by Byron Barton

Pub Date: March 10th, 1989
ISBN: 006443298X
Publisher: T.Y. Crowell

Using an extremely simple text, the author of several informational books for the very young—on such subjects as wheels, airports, and boats—takes on the animal world with a look at a favorite topic: "A long time ago. . .There were dinosaurs with horns and dinosaurs with spikes." Each beast mentioned is represented in glowing, solid, unrealistic color (e.g., an orange dinosaur against a flat pink sky; a bright green tyrannosaurus against a red volcano erupting pink smoke); but the effect is not only striking but conveys a genuine, if very elementary, sense of these long-ago beasts. Scientific names and their pronunciations are given on the endpapers.