Raptor Pack (Step into Reading Book Series: A Step 5 Book)
Paleontologist Robert T. Bakker tells the amazing story of a day in the life of a pack of Deinonychus
(a.k.a.“raptor”) dinosaurs. Readers follow the creatures as they single out, kill, and devour an injured tenontosaur; climb up into a tree; fall asleep; and are themselves stalked by a giant predator. Includes an explanation of how scientists study rocks and minerals; fossil roots, claws, teeth, and bones; and modern predators to understand raptor behavior.
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Raptor Pack (Step into Reading Book Series: A Step 5 Book)
Paleontologist Robert T. Bakker tells the amazing story of a day in the life of a pack of Deinonychus
(a.k.a.“raptor”) dinosaurs. Readers follow the creatures as they single out, kill, and devour an injured tenontosaur; climb up into a tree; fall asleep; and are themselves stalked by a giant predator. Includes an explanation of how scientists study rocks and minerals; fossil roots, claws, teeth, and bones; and modern predators to understand raptor behavior.
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Raptor Pack (Step into Reading Book Series: A Step 5 Book)

Raptor Pack (Step into Reading Book Series: A Step 5 Book)

Raptor Pack (Step into Reading Book Series: A Step 5 Book)

Raptor Pack (Step into Reading Book Series: A Step 5 Book)

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Overview

Paleontologist Robert T. Bakker tells the amazing story of a day in the life of a pack of Deinonychus
(a.k.a.“raptor”) dinosaurs. Readers follow the creatures as they single out, kill, and devour an injured tenontosaur; climb up into a tree; fall asleep; and are themselves stalked by a giant predator. Includes an explanation of how scientists study rocks and minerals; fossil roots, claws, teeth, and bones; and modern predators to understand raptor behavior.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780375823039
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Publication date: 06/24/2003
Series: Step into Reading Book Series: A Step 5 Book
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 48
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.10(d)
Lexile: 760L (what's this?)
Age Range: 7 - 9 Years

About the Author

Dr. Robert T. Bakker is one of the most respected vertebrate paleontologists in the world. Often credited with starting the “dinosaur renaissance,” he is curator of paleontology at the Houston Museum of Natural Science.

Mike Skrepnick is a paleo-artist who specializes in dinosaurs. Among the many books he has illustrated are the Step into Reading Books Dinosaurs Alive! and Raptor Pack.

What People are Saying About This

Mike Taylor

Raptor Pack is a kids' book, aimed at grades 2-4. It aims very high: the goal is to demonstrate how the science of palaeontology actually works. And it achieves that goal admirably.

The approach is a very strong one: after a brief introduction in which Bob Bakker tells us who he is and what he does, chapter one is a "day in the life" story of a pack of Deinonychus (the eponymous raptors). They track, kill and eat a Tenontosaurus, climb a tree to avoid an Acrocanthosaurus and drive it away by vomiting bone fragments over it. All good stuff for kids! The remaining four chapters explain the science behind the story, showing how scientists form hypotheses from evidence. (It doesn't say much about argument and proof, but hey, what do you expect in 48 pages?)

Chapter two briefly discusses the exhumation and reconstruction of Deinonychus. Chapter three looks at its weaponry: the "killer claw", hind-leg muscle attachment sites, agility from the stiffened tail and suchlike. Chapter four looks at lifestyle inferences: raptors' ability to climb trees and evidence for pack-hunting. Chapter five identifies the raptors' victims by considering what else lived at the time and looking for "smoking gun" tooth crowns found with various corpses. It also considers how raptors likely expelled unwanted matter (by analogy with birds), and discusses parental care.

The effect of the whole is compelling; it's a real window into the way science can work for kids who are more often just presented with conclusions. If I were being picky, I'd say that the boundary between chapters 4 and 5 doesn't make much sense, but that hardly spoiled the book to the five-year-old I read it to - he loved it. And so do I.

Finally, as well as being written by Bakker, this books had input from Tom Holtz and Phil Currie, so those are big guns firing. Highly recommended.

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