Genre: Pop-Up
Author: Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart
Awards: N/A
Age Group: 8 to 10-year-olds
Teacher Evaluation: As a teacher, I think this book would fit best in a 3rd to a 4th-grade classroom. Due to the fragility of the pages, I would have my class learn how to care for pop-up books first. Simply because of how fragile the manipulatives are in the book I would want to keep students from reading this book. With rules in place to care for the pages, I think this book would be wonderful for students who are interested in dinosaurs.
Summary: This pop-up book begins by describing how all we know about dinosaurs comes from fossils. It describes how dinosaurs are related to modern-day reptiles. Dinosaurs were first thought to be slow but with more recent studies, paleontologists have come to realize they were fast and smart. The book continues on for several pages displaying and discussing the types of dinosaurs there are. The book talks about herbivores to meat-eating dinosaurs, small to huge dinosaurs, and son on presenting facts about each. The book ends discussing raptors and the new research that creates the link between dinosaurs and birds. The closing remarks are of the legacy of dinosaurs, like how many believe the closest modern-day relative of the T-rex is a chicken, and how the extinction of dinosaurs is a mystery.
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