Books with title Dinosaur Discovery

From our award winning line of Smithsonian titles, Dinosaur Discovery Timelines presents key findings from famous digs that led to the discovery of dinosaur species of interest to young readers. Step by step entries present the unearthing of fossils and key revelations that experts puzzled together to create our knowledge of dinosaurs. This fascinating approach supports Common Core reading standards and provides an inside look at how we know what we know about life in the Mesozoic Era.

A never-before-published poem for children by the Nobel laureateIn the beginning there were just waveshammering at the obstacles . . .So begins a lovely, thought-provoking poem that Joseph Brodsky wrote in 1995. It is about the first discoverers of America -- fish, birds, then man. But it is also about a land that even today is full of secrets waiting to be discovered. Illustrated in collage and gouache by Vladimir Radunsky, this poem is, finally, a celebration of our world -- a world open to possibilities.