Elaine Marie Alphin.  Dinosaur Hunter

In Wyoming in the 1880s, a young boy fulfills his dream of finding a dinosaur skeleton on his father's ranch, outwits a man who would cheat him, and sells his find to a team of fossil hunters.

Liza Baker.  Dinosaur Days

When Harold is unable to sleep, he uses his purple crayon to draw a jungle in which he hopes to find dinosaurs.

Byron Barton.  Bones, Bones, Dinosaur Bones

A cast of characters looks for, finds, and assembles some dinosaur bones.

Stan & Jan Berenstain.  The Berenstain Bears and the Missing

Dinosaur Bone   The three Bear Detectives search for a dinosaur bone that is missing from the Bear Museum.

Bob Berry.  Dorothy's Garden

Dorothy the Dinosaur loves everything about gardening--digging, planting, watering, weeding, and picking pretty flowers--and her friends, The Wiggles, help her make her garden grow.

Betty G. Birney.  Tyrannosaurus Tex

Tyrannosaurus Tex, a dinosaur cowboy, helps Cookie and Pete put out a prairie fire and scare away some cattle rustlers.

Mary Blackwood.  Derek the Knitting Dinosaur

Derek, a little green dinosaur, is somewhat worried that he likes to stay home and knit instead of acting like his ferocious brothers, but the onset of cold weather allows his knitting to become useful.

Larry Dane Brimner.  Dinosaurs Dance

Though other animals may twirl and prance, there is nothing like a dinosaur dance.

Laurene Krasny Brown.  Rex and Lilly School Time

Dinosaur siblings Rex and Lilly have a busy day in school trading lunches, reading, and taking part in Show and Tell.

Carol Carrick.  Patrick's Dinosaurs on the Internet

After looking up information about dinosaurs on his computer, Patrick is awakened by a dinosaur who arrives in a spaceship to take Patrick to his planet for show and tell.

Francois Crozat.  I am a Big Dinosaur

A young dinosaur describes his family and activities and takes a look at other kinds of dinosaurs that share his environment.

Margery Cuyler.  Baby Dot

After failing to adjust well to the routines of the learning cave and refusing to go back, spoiled girl dinosaur Baby Dot finally returns and encounters another young dinosaur even meaner than she was.

Tomie dePaola.  Little Grunt and the Big Egg

When a dinosaur hatches from the egg that Little Grunt brought home for dinner, Mama and Papa Grunt let him keep it as a pet until it grows too big for their cave.

Laura Driscoll.  Tyrannosaurus Wrecks

Stanley takes a step back in time to find out about the T. Rex dinosaur.

Pamela Duncan Edwards.  Dinorella

In this story, loosely based on that of Cinderella but featuring dinosaurs, the Duke falls in love with Dinorella when she rescues him from the dreaded deinonychus at the Dinosaur Dance.

Michael Foerman.  A Trip to Dinosaur Time

Tom disobeys his mother when she tells him not to play with her new kitchen timer and finds himself transported to a time when dinosaurs are alive.

Molly Goode.  The Land Before Time

Before she dies, Little Foot's mother tells the young dinosaur to go to to the Great Valley, where food is plentiful and he can start life anew.

John Gurney.  Dinosaur Train

Jesse gets to ride on a dinosaur train.

Babs Bell Hajdusiewicz.  It will be Fun, Dainty Dinosaur

A little girl and her imaginary dinosaur friend learn that they can have fun when mother goes away on business.

Wendy Hartman.  The Dinosaurs are Back and its all Your Fault,

Edward!   Edward gets more and more nervous as his older brother tries to convince him that a dinosaur egg is about to hatch under his bed.

Diane Dawson Hearn.  Dad's Dinosaur Day

Dad's behavior changes when he becomes a dinosaur for a day.

Lillian Hoban.  Joe and Betsy the Dinosaur

Although Joe's pet dinosaur Betsy is too big for some activities, a formidable task allows her to demonstrate that sometimes bigger is better.

Syd Hoff.  Danny and the Dinosaur

A little boy is surprised and pleased when one of the dinosaurs from the museum agrees to play with him.

William H. Hooks.  Mr. Dinosaur

When Eli's fascination with dinosaurs begins to cause him trouble, his older brother finds a clever way to help.

William Joyce.  Dinosaur Bob and His Adventures with the Family

Lazardo   While vacationing in Africa, the Lazardo family finds and brings back to America a friendly dinosaur that becomes the talk of the town.

Jill Kastner.  Princess Dinosaur

Princess Dinosaur has fun playing with the rest of the toys until Spots the dog comes and carries her off to an outdoor adventure.

Linda Manning.  Dinosaur Days

Each day of the week a different dinosaur appears at a girl's house to engage in some kind of mischief.

Julie Michaels.  Dinosaur

Separated from his own species as a hatchling and raised by a clan of lemurs, Aladar's life is plunged into chaos when a meteor shower forces him to join a group of migrating dinosaurs searching for a safe nesting ground.

Jane Belk Moncure.  Word Bird's Dinosaur Days

Word Bird becomes acquainted with dinosaurs on a class trip to the museum.

Bernard Most.  Where to Look for a Dinosaur

Describes various types of dinosaurs and where fossils have been found throughout the world.

Bernard Most.  Catch Me if You Can

When a little dinosaur plays a game with the biggest dinosaur of them all, she is not scared because he is her grandpa.

Dennis Nolan.  Shadow of the Dinosaurs

A boy and his dog find a magic dinosaur bone that shows them what life was like among the dinosaurs.

Hiawyn Oram.  A Boy Wants a Dinosaur

Alex doesn't want an ordinary pet, he wants a dinosaur.

Peggy Parish.  Dinosaur Time

An easy-to-read introduction to eleven different dinosaurs--their size, their diet, the pronunciation of their names, and their distinctive characteristics.

Marcus Pfister.  Dazzle the Dinosaur

Dazzle the dinosaur helps his friend Maia and her mother reclaim their former home from the nasty Dragonsaurus.

Roger Priddy.  My Big Dinosaur Book

Colorful illustrations introduces the names and basic characteristics of 43 different dinosaurs.

Margret Rey.  Curious George and the Dinosaur

Curious George visits a museum with a class of schoolchildren and causes much excitement by climbing up onto a dinosaur skeleton.

Eric Rohmann.  Time Flies

A wordless tale in which a bird flying around the dinosaur exhibit in a museum has an unsettling experience when it finds itself back in the time of living dinosaurs.

Henry Schwartz.  How I Captured a Dinosaur

Liz, who is fascinated by dinosaurs, finds a living Albertosaurus on a camping trip and brings it home to live with her.

Carol Diggory Shields.  Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp

When it's rock 'n' roll time during the prehistoric era, many different kinds of dinosaurs gather to twist, twirl, and tromp at a Saturday night party.

Peter Sis.   Dinosaur!

While taking a bath, a young boy is joined by all sorts of dinosaurs.

James Skofield.  Detective Dinosaur

Detective Dinosaur and Officer Pterodactyl are challenged to solve three cases when a hat is missing, a shoe squeaks, and a loud clanging comes from a dark alley at night.

Laya Steinberg.  Thesaurus Rex

Thesaurus Rex is a playful young dinosaur with a way with words. He especially likes trying out synonyms as he plays all day.

James Stevenson.  The Most Amazing Dinosaur

Wilfred the rat stumbles into a museum, where he befriends the animals living there and enjoys the many exhibits.

Paul Strickland.  Dinosaur Roar!

Illustrations and rhyming text present all kinds of dinosaurs, including ones that are sweet, grumpy, spiky, or lumpy.

Mike Thaler.  Little Dinosaur

Little Dinosaur enjoys playing with blocks, wearing new clothes, learning the alphabet, and being kind to ants.

Jan Wahl.  I Met a Dinosaur

After a visit to a museum of natural history, a young girl begins to see dinosaurs everywhere.

Rick Walton.  Why the Banana Split

The people and objects of a town panic and flee when they see a Tyrannosaurus rex approaching, but they discover that only the bananas have anything to fear from this fruit-eating dinosaur.

Hans Wilhelm.  Tyrone the Double Dirty Rotten Cheater

Big, bad Tyrone the dinosaur wins all the games at Swamp Island by cheating until he foils his own attempt to cheat in the treasure hunt.

Jane Yolen.  How do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?

Mother and child ponder the different ways a dinosaur can say goodnight, from slamming his tail and pouting to giving a big hug and kiss.

David A. Adler.  Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Dinosaur Bones

When she notices some bones missing from a dinosaur skeleton exhibited in the museum, a young girl with a photographic memory tries to discover who has been taking them and why.

Stan Berenstain.  The Berenstain Bears and the G-Rex Bones

Doctor Zoltan Bearish and his gang of swindlers try to pass off fake dinosaur bones in order to embarrass Professor Actual Factual and the Bearsonian Institution.

B. B. Calhoun.  On the Right Track

Fenton Rumplemayer moves from New York City to Montana with his father, a paleontologist, and is able to help him identify a puzzling dinosaur track.

Mary Blount Christian.  Sebastian (Super Sleuth) and the Bone to

Pick Mystery   While investigating a case of breaking and entering at the local museum, the canine detective uncovers a fraud involving dinosaur bones.

Pam Conrad.  My Daniel

Ellie and Stevie learn about a family legacy when their grandmother tells them stories of her brother's historical quest for dinosaur bones on their Nebraska farm.

Helen V. Griffith.  Dinosaur Habitat

After twelve-year-old Nathan's pesky younger brother Ryan claims to have found a dinosaur fossil, they are suddenly transported into a misty world where Ryan's toy dinosaurs are alive.

Wolfram Hanel.  Lila's Little Dinosaur

When her father takes her to the museum, Lila, who likes dinosaurs more than anything else, finds a little live dinosaur who becomes so fond of her that he follows her home.

James Preller.  The Case of the Disappearing Dinosaur

Danika is doing a magic act for Bigs's birthday party, and for her biggest trick she makes Bigs's favorite toy--a dinosaur--disappear. But where did it go? Even Danika doesn't know. It's time for Jigsaw and Mila to use their own tricks to fix this mixed-up magic.

Ron Roy.  The Talking T. Rex

Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose investigate the theft of a great deal of money from the belly of a nearly life-size Tyrannosaurus Rex model that their friend, Jud Wheat, is using to raise money for a dinosaur museum.

Tor Seidler.  The Tar Pit

Shy Edward Small has only one real friend, a loving and brave dinosaur, with whom he finds adventure at the edge of a curious pond full of dark, oily goo and daydreams.

Judith Bauer Stamper.  Dinosaur Detectives

The Magic School Bus takes Ms. Frizzle and her class on a trip to the Museum of Natural History. During the trip the class travels back to the Mesozoic Era and experiences a first hand Jurassic adventure!

Hudson Talbott.  Your Pet Dinosaur

Offers humorous advice on the care and feeding of different kinds of dinosaurs as pets.

Gertrude Chandler Warner.  The Dinosaur Mystery

When the Aldens go to the Pickering Natural History Museum to assist with the opening of a dinosaur exhibit, their work is hampered by a series of mysterious happenings.

Paul Zindel.  Raptor

Zack and his Ute Indian friend find themselves trapped in a cave with a living dinosaur--the deadly Utahraptor.

Kathleen Zoehfeld.  Fossil Fever

Jeff must learn patience when he accompanies his uncle on an expedition to hunt for dinosaur fossils in the Sahara Desert.

David Adler.  The Dinosaur Princess and other Prehistoric

Riddles   A collection of jokes and riddles about dinosaurs and cave men.

Aliki.  Digging Up Dinosaurs

Briefly introduces various types of dinosaurs whose skeletons and reconstructions are seen in museums and explains how scientists uncover, preserve, and study fossilized dinosaur bones.

Aliki.  My Visit to the Dinosaurs

A visit to a museum of natural history provides a little boy with an introduction to the habits, characteristics, and habitats of fourteen kinds of dinosaurs.

Tom Allen.  Dinosaur Days in Texas

Discusses the various species of dinosaurs discovered in Texas and where their fossil remains can be seen.

Lee Ames.  Draw 50 Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric

Animals   Step-by-step instructions for drawing fifty different dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.

Bob Barner.  Dinosaur Bones

With a lively rhyming text and vibrant paper collage illustrations, author-artist Barner shakes the dust off the bones found in museums to bring dinosaurs back to life.

Paul M. Barrett.  National Geographic Dinosaurs

Everything young readers want to know about dinosaurs and their world. Presents recent discoveries and current scientific thought. 53 major types of dinosaurs are described.

Michael Benton.  Dinosaurs

Illustrations and text look at how dinosaur remains have been excavated and studied, what we know about how dinosaurs lived, about related prehistoric creatures, and about why dinosaurs are extinct.

Jerry Booth.  The Big Beast Book

An introduction to dinosaurs with instructions for related projects.

David Burnie.  The Concise Dinosaur Encyclopedia

Presented in an easy-to-use, chronological format, this definitive dinosaur encyclopedia is authoritative, extensive, and offers an amazing visual trek back in time to the world of dinosaurs. Children will be drawn to its informative, clear narrative, illuminating photographs, and stunning illustrations.

Karen Carr.  Dinosaur Hunt

Describes a prehistoric battle between two dinosaurs, based on fossil footprints found near the Paluxy River in Texas.

Neil Clark.  1001 Facts about Dinosaurs

Absolutely bursting with thousands of fascinating facts, Backpack Books are small enough to carry with ease, but big enough to provide all the answers. Researched and written by experts, topics are covered in encyclopedic and easy-to-understand detail.

Joanna Cole.  The Magic School Bus in the Time of the

Dinosaurs   On a trip to a dinosaur dig, the Magic School Bus is suddenly back in the time when dinosaurs ruled the earth. Young readers get a fun-and-fact-filled ride through the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous eras.

Brian Cooley.  Make-a-saurus:  My Life with Raptors and

other Dinosaurs   A professional dinosaur sculptor shows how he creates life-like models using the best available data from paleontology, and in a special section adapts his work to show kids how to make a model dinosaur using inexpensive, easy to find materials.

Barry Cox.  The Simon & Schuster Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs

and Prehistoric Creatures   With entries for more than 600 species, each arranged in its evolutionary sequence, the book presents a panorama of enormous diversity, from predatory dinosaurs to primitive amphibians, from giant armored fish to woolly mammoths, saber-tooth tigers and dire wolves. Each entry features a specially commissioned full-color painting prepared according to the best research of today in close collaboration with world-renowned paleontologists.

Philip Currie.  The Newest and Coolest Dinosaurs

Learn what mighty monster was more gigantic than Tyrannosaurus Rex and may possibly be the largest carnivore that ever lived. Was it a Sauropods worst nightmare? Find out if you dare! Why was the dinosaur from the Antarctic nicknamed Elvisaurus? Find out what may have happened to the hornless horned dinosaur, where the first feathered dinosaur came from, and who the new heavyweight dinosaur champion of the world is!

Kenneth Davis.  Don't Know Much about Dinosaurs

Questions and answers provide information about dinosaurs, including the different species, what they ate, how they lived, and why they may have become extinct.

Dougal Dixon.  Dougal Dixon's Amazing Dinosaurs

Includes full-color illustrations and diagrams mixed with bite-sized pieces of dinosaur information.

D. C. DuBosque.  Draw Dinosaurs

Provides step-by-step instructions for drawing dinosaurs one line at a time or for beginning with ovals, triangles, and solid forms.

Michael Emberley.  Dinosaurs!:  A Drawing Book

Presents instructions for drawing a variety of dinosaurs.

James Orville Farlow.  Bringing Dinosaurs Bones to Life

This book provides an in-depth and clear explanation of how scientists go through the steps of bringing dinosaur bones to life. Read about how they collect information and make observations, formulate educated guesses, create hypotheses, and develop theories.

Enid Fisher.  The Great Dinosaur Record Book

Identifies the biggest dinosaur, the smallest, the fastest, the most intelligent, and other record holders among these prehistoric animals.

Sylvia Funston.  The Dinosaur Question and Answer Book

Questions and answers provide the most commonly desired information about dinosaurs, as well as information about dinosaurs that has never appeared before.

Gail Gibbons.  Dinosaurs

Introduces in simple text and illustrations the characteristics and habits of a variety of dinosaurs.

Tamara Green.  Looking at...the Dinosaur Atlas

Descriptions of various dinosaurs and their fossil remains, arranged according to the continents on which they were discovered.

Katy Hall.  Dino Riddles

A collection of riddles relating to dinosaurs, such as "What do you get if you cross a dinosaur with a rabbit?... Tricerahops!" and "What did dinosaur campers cook over the fire?... Dino-smores!"

Kelly Milner Halls.  Dinosaur Mummies

Learn about rare dinosaur fossils: the "dinosaur mummies" that are not just bones and teeth, but also include fossilized soft tissues, like skin, muscle and internal organs and what they can reveal about prehistoric life.

Thom Holmes.  Great Dinosaur Expeditions and Discoveries

Outlines several expeditions by paleontologists hunting for information about dinosaurs in America, Africa, Canada, Patagonia, and elsewhere.

Louis Jacobs.  Lone Star Dinosaurs

Texas boasts of every basic group of dinosaurs - a remarkable diversity that samples nearly the entire range of dinosaurian development over an immense expanse of time. In fact, the three dinosaur-bearing areas within the state - the Panhandle, Central Texas, and Big Bend - yield treasures of vastly different ages, from the beginning of the Mesozoic Era more than 200 million years ago to the time of the big extinction some 66 million years ago.

David Lambert.  DK Guide to Dinosaurs

Depicts how dinosaurs lived and died, covering such topics as habitats, size, hunting techniques, self-defense, courtship, and family life.

Kathryn Lasky.  Dinosaur Dig

Follows an East Coast family as it travels to Montana to join a paleontology team in digging for dinosaur bones.

Patricia Lauber.  Dinosaurs Walked Here

Discusses how fossilized remains of plants and animals reveal the characteristics of the prehistoric world.

Don Lessem.  The Dinosaur Atlas

An up-close look at the habitats of a variety of dinosaurs.

Elizabeth MacLeod.  What Did Dinosaurs Eat?

Dinosaurs roamed the Earth millions of years ago, but they still fascinate us today. Big or small? Fast or slow? Meat-eaters, plant-eaters--or both? By carefully studying fossils, scientists have been able to answer many interesting questions about the lives of these "terrible lizards!"

The Macmillan Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and

Prehistoric Animals    A flamboyant display in color and black and white drawings of the putative gross appearance of fossil vertebrates with evolutionary trees and drawings of the fossil record.

Mick Manning.  Dinomania

Dinomaniacs will enjoy the numerous, imaginative activities.

Sandra Markle.  Outside and Inside Dinosaurs

Describes the inner and outer workings of dinosaurs, discussing what has been learned about their anatomy, diet, and behavior from fossils.

Christopher Maynard.  The Best Book of Dinosaurs

Introduces dinosaurs and their world, discussing such topics as their food, life cycles, means of hunting, and means of fighting and defense.

Christopher McGowan.  Make Your Own Dinosaur Out of

Chicken Bones    McGowan has devised a deliciously clever science project that kids of all ages can really sink their teeth into -- the creation of their very own dinosaur skeleton. Numerous illustrations guide readers step-by-step through the process of taking the bones of three chickens, some wire, glue, toothpicks and a few other household items, and building a model even the Museum of Natural History would admire.

Bernard Most.  How Big Were the Dinosaurs?

Describes the size of different dinosaurs by comparing them to more familiar objects, such as a school bus, a trombone, or a bowling alley.

Duy Nguyenn.  Dinosaur Origami

Using the ancient and magnificent art of origami, construct an entire prehistoric world of dinos. The basic folds are so simple that it takes less than 10 pages to show you how to master them. Once you've got those down, follow the generously sized, colorful diagrams and see the animals' bodies emerge.

David Norman.  Dinosaur

Be an eyewitness to the lives of the prehistoric masters of the earth and find out how ancient fossils and footprints can reveal their awesome world. Discover which prehistoric creatures once possessed these teeth. Find out how fossils can show if a dinosaur ate meat. See what dinosaur skin was like.

Bill Nye.  Bill Nye the Science Guy's Great Big Dinosaur Dig

Bill Nye explores the world of dinosaurs and fossils.

Jerry Pallotta.  The Dinosaur Alphabet Book

Presents a dinosaur for each letter of the alphabet.

Kathy Ross.  Crafts for Kids Who are Wild about Dinosaurs

Provides instructions for twenty projects, including a triceratops ring-toss game, diplodocus body puppet, plesiosaur window decoration, necktie tree, and dinosaur feet.

Shelley Tanaka.  New Dinos

Describes some of the newly discovered dinosaurs and what paleontologists have learned about these prehistoric creatures in recent years.

Barbara Taylor.  Oxford First Book of Dinosaurs

A simpl