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For millions of years dinosaurs lived almost everywhere around the world. Sixty-five million years ago, they disappeared. Find out why! Lift special acetate pages and come face to face with the biggest, the fastest, and the fiercest of these scary creatures.

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Gr 1-4- Designed to appeal to browsers, these volumes use a question-and-answer format to provide general overviews. Varied page layouts have an effective combination of white space and color paintings. Two acetate pages in each book allow see-through viewing for a different perspective (for example, in Ocean Life , a shell-encrusted rock on one of the acetate pages lifts to show animals that live at the bottom of a rock pool). Many spreads include a small box with a true-or-false question (answers can be found at the end of the book). Rain Forest considers only those in tropical areas. Dinosaurs shows the size of each animal compared to a human adult. These titles are worth considering as supplementary materials, but they're not essential.-Kathy Piehl, Minnesota State University, Mankato

What Were Dinosaurs?     5
When Did Dinosaurs Live?     6
What Did Dinosaurs Eat?     8
Did Dinosaurs Eat Each Other?     10
Did Dinosaurs Lay Eggs?     12
Were Dinosaurs Good Mothers?     14
Was a Dinosaur Bigger Than an Elephant?     16
Did Dinosaurs Swim?     18
Did Dinosaurs Fly?     20
Could Dinosaurs Run?     22
Did Dinosaurs Have Bones?     24
What Killed the Dinosaurs?     26
How Do We Know About Dinosaurs?     28
Useful Words     30
Answers     31
Index     32