Fossil by Fossil: Comparing Dinosaur Bones

by Sara Levine, T.S Spookytooth (Illustrator)

Overview

What dinosaur would you be if you had a bony ridge rising from the back of your skull and three horns poking up from the front? Answer: a triceratops!

This picture book will keep you guessing as you find out how human skeletons are like―and unlike―those of dinosaurs!

How are you similar to animals? How are you different? These entertaining picture books from educator and veterinarian Sara Levine and illustrator T.S Spookytooth explore comparative anatomy and give readers the chance to find out how their skeletons, teeth, and eyes match up with a wide variety of animals from the past and present. Packed with surprising animal facts that will delight readers of all ages!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781467794893
Publisher:	Lerner Publishing Group
Publication date:	01/01/2018
Series:	Animal by Animal Series
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	9.40(w) x 11.10(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	8 - 9 Years

About the Author

Sara Levine is an author, educator, and veterinarian. Her science books for children include the Animal by Animal series, Germs Up Close, and A Peek at Beaks: Tools Birds Use. Her books have received a number of awards including AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize, Utah Beehive Book Award, Cook Prize finalist, Monarch Award master list, and Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year.

T.S Spookytooth has been illustrating for many years. Throughout these years of brandishing a paintbrush, he has explored the diverse fields of children’s picture books; magazine and newspaper illustrations; and advertising, packaging, and illustrating for websites.

When not working on illustration commissions, he likes to find time to work on many of his own personal projects. He keeps these projects locked in a suitcase but sometimes he forgets where he left the key. An ideal day for Mr. Spookytooth is to ponder and then to draw these ponderings. Some food is fitted in along the way followed by more ponderings and the occasional readjustment of his bow tie, but ponderings are the main order of the day.

He also lives in a house with Mrs. Spookytooth and thankfully she is fond of a ponder as well . . . and is good at finding lost keys.

Editorial Reviews

"[An] engaging dino collection."—Booklist

From the Publisher

2018-01-22
A comparison of select human and dinosaur bones connects readers with some of our more ancient predecessors.Continuing the approach of Bone by Bone (2013) and Tooth by Tooth (2016), Levine points up parallels between fossilized skulls, ribs, toes, and other skeletal features and those of modern readers as well as prehistoric frills, horns, and the like that we don't happen to sport. Some of this she presents as easy posers: what sort of dino would you be if you both had a long neck and "your vertebrae didn't stop at your rear end but kept going and going and going?" Diplodocus, perhaps, or, she properly notes on the ensuing double gatefold, another type of sauropod. What if you had two finger bones per hand rather than five? T. Rex! If your pinky bone grew tremendously long? A pterosaur! Just for fun, in the simple but anatomically careful illustrations, Spookytooth temporarily alters members of a cast of, mostly, brown-skinned young museumgoers (two wearing hijabs) to reflect the exaggerated lengths, sizes, or other adaptations certain bones underwent in dinosaurs and several other types of extinct reptiles. Generous lists of websites and other information sources follow a revelation (that won't come as a surprise to confirmed dino fans) that birds are dinosaurs too.Another "humerus" study in comparative anatomy. (Informational picture book. 6-8)

Kirkus Reviews