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Books in Dinosaurs and Their Discoverers series

  • The First Dinosaur Eggs and Roy Chapman Andrews

    Brooke Hartzog

    Library Binding (Powerkids Pr, Aug. 1, 1999)
    Describes the expeditions led by Roy Andrews for New York's American Museum of Natural History to the Gobi Desert in Mongolia in an effort to uncover dinosaur fossils.
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  • Iguanodon and Dr. Gideon Mantell

    Brooke Hartzog

    Library Binding (Powerkids Pr, Aug. 1, 1999)
    Tells how two amateur paleontologists, an English doctor and his wife, found a fossilized tooth that led to the discovery of a large species of dinosaurs known as Iguanodons.
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  • Tyrannosaurus Rex and Barnum Brown

    Brooke Hartzog

    Library Binding (PowerKids Press, Jan. 1, 2001)
    Did you know that the tongue twister, "she sells seashells by the seashore, " stems from the life of Mary Anning, who, at age 12, discovered the first complete ichthyosaurus skeleton? Here is a treasure trove filled with gems of dinosaur lore. Make no bones about it -- your students won't find anything dry about these true tales of often-swashbuckling paleontologists and their fabulous fossil finds. Kids will be thrilled to learn about these real-life Indiana Joneses -- and how they used their knowledge to blast open some monstrous mysteries of the past!
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  • Ichthyosaurus and Little Mary Anning

    Brooke Hartzog

    Hardcover (PowerKids Press, Jan. 1, 2001)
    Did you know that the tongue twister, "she sells seashells by the seashore, " stems from the life of Mary Anning, who, at age 12, discovered the first complete ichthyosaurus skeleton? Here is a treasure trove filled with gems of dinosaur lore. Make no bones about it -- your students won't find anything dry about these true tales of often-swashbuckling paleontologists and their fabulous fossil finds. Kids will be thrilled to learn about these real-life Indiana Joneses -- and how they used their knowledge to blast open some monstrous mysteries of the past!
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  • The Dinosaur Bone Battle Between O.C. Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope

    Brooke Hartzog

    Library Binding (Powerkids Pr, Aug. 1, 1999)
    Tells the story of two nineteenth-century paleontologists who used questionable tactics as they tried to outdo each other in collecting dinosaur bones.
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  • The Dinosaur Footprints and Roland T. Bird

    Brooke Hartzog

    Library Binding (Powerkids Pr, Aug. 1, 1999)
    Describes the efforts of Roland Bird to investigate footprints left in various sites across the American Southwest by dinosaurs millions of years ago.
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  • Icthyosaurus & Little Mary Ann

    John Hartzog

    Paperback (Rosen Publishing Group, Jan. 1, 2005)
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  • Ichthyosaurus and Little Mary Anning

    Brooke Hartzog

    Hardcover (PowerKids Press, Jan. 1, 2001)
    An account of the English girl who, at age twelve, discovered the first complete icthyosaurus skeleton, and who continued to collect and study dinosaur fossils throughout her life.
  • The First Dinosaur Eggs and Roy Chapman Andrews

    Brooke Hartzog

    Library Binding (Powerkids Pr, Aug. 15, 1999)
    Describes the expeditions led by Roy Andrews for New York's American Museum of Natural History to the Gobi Desert in Mongolia in an effort to uncover dinosaur fossils.
  • The Dinosaur Footprints and Roland T. Bird

    Brooke Hartzog

    Library Binding (Powerkids Pr, Aug. 15, 1999)
    Describes the efforts of Roland Bird to investigate footprints left in various sites across the American Southwest by dinosaurs millions of years ago.
  • The Dinosaur Bone Battle Between O.C. Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope

    Brooke Hartzog

    Library Binding (Powerkids Pr, Aug. 15, 1999)
    Tells the story of two nineteenth-century paleontologists who used questionable tactics as they tried to outdo each other in collecting dinosaur bones.
  • Dinosaurs in the Sky

    Joseph Staunton, Luis Rey

    Library Binding (Amicus, July 1, 2010)
    Dinosaurs in the Sky, profiles prehistoric flying animals such as Pteranodon, Archaeopteryx, Dimorphodon, Tapejara, and more during the Devonian, Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods. Additional features include: a table of contents, glossary, index, pronunciation guides, timeline and quizzes, and data boxes with scale diagrams.
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