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Plant-Eating Dinosaurs

by David B. Weishampel
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A study of the diverse groups of ant-eating dinosaurs by a paleontologist who discusses what the brontosaurs, stegosaurs, duck-billed dinosaurs, and lesser-known prosauropods and seguosaurs looked like and how much and what they ate.

Examines the plant-eating dinosaurs and the characteristics which enabled them to survive on that diet.

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School Library Journal

Gr 4-6-- Plant-eating dinosaurs deserve some time in the spotlight, but this book fails to capture their diversity. The presentation is methodical and uninspiring, like a teacher's overly long monologue. The colored-pencil illustrations are acceptable, but many of the dinosaurs seem surrounded by too much white space. What's worse, the pacing doesn't work. Diagrams meant to explicate the text become confusing or useless when they appear two or three pages after the subject is mentioned. While no book covers exactly the same creatures mentioned here, libraries with a healthy collection of dinosaur books could certainly pass this one by. Lauber's The News about Dinosaurs (Bradbury, 1989) and Simon's The Largest Dinosaurs (Macmillan, 1986) cover similiar subjects better. --Cathryn A. Camper, Minneapolis Pub . Lib . :

Book Details

Published
April 1, 1992
Publisher
Franklin Watts
Pages
63
Format
Binding
ISBN
9780531110218

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