What did you read today?

Thanks to the "Teacher's Choices" class this winter, my range of reading topics has expanded to include topics that I don't usually find on the top of my reading list. Tonight, for example, I read four different dinosaur books:

Dinomummy. Manning, Dr. Phillip Lars. Kingfisher, 2007.
This book tracks the efforts of excavating and studying one particular dinosaur, a hadrosaur found by a 16-year-old in North Dakota, that had been preserved quickly enough to produce a fossil mummy, a rare happening. Great panoramic illustrations.


Dinosaur Eggs Discovered! Dingus, Lowell. Twenty-first Century Books, 2007.
A series of excavations to a single site in Argentina produces new information about Titanosaur eggs and possible nesting habits. Additional finds include an Aucasaurus skeleton and Titanosaur skeletons. Engaging reading for a fossil excavation enthusiast of middle school age or older.

Dinosaurs. Long, John. Simon and Schuster, 2007.
This "insiders" book is organized into two parts: introducing and infocus. Introducing covers general dinosaur basics such as the Mesozoic era, life habits and how fossils are found and studied. Infocus give the details on a dozen popular and well-known dinosaurs. This is the one I will buy for Lake Hood!


Extreme Dinosaurs. Mash, Robert. Atheneum, 2007.
Buy this book for a dinosaur lover in your own home! This sturdy edition contains moveable parts, folding pages, flaps to lift, pieces in envelopes, and is well-organized into readable chunks of text to pick and choose from for the nightly read aloud!

The bottom line: Well-written books about dinosaurs are a welcome and even refreshing change of pace for this reader!