Booklist Reviews
The DK Findout! series specializes in providing online resources, and this particular title couples the engaging visual style of web pages with the high-quality content of other DK titles. Foldout pages on both the front and back covers offer time lines and maps that help readers visualize hard-to-define temporal concepts. The seven classifications of dinosaurs provide a basic organizational structure for the content, and the adaptive features of each is explored in-depth. Habitat, diet, and size of each type of dinosaur provide bits of trivia. Illustrations and digital renderings offer full-color representations of scientists' best guesses at the appearance of dinosaurs, alongside images of fossil remains, while theories about extinction and the process of fossilization are discussed by real scientists working in the field. Not only is a thorough glossary included, but an easy-to-follow pronunciation guide will have young readers sounding like experts. An extremely up-to-date website provides a companion to this comprehensive print resource. Copyright 2016 Booklist Reviews.
Kirkus Reviews
A busy book tests the patience of young children who are just learning to read pictures. Each double-page spread focuses on a vehicle type: flying machines, cars, farm equipment, bikes, and so on. But there's something odd in each category. Is that wheel made of a lemon and that one a pizza? Actually, yes. Leading questions are posed on each spread. Side-by-side scenes of emergency equipment and boats seem identical, but readers are invited to look more closely to find 10 differences. A bit of information, often without any picture clue, is included on each spread. For example, a sentence about horses and carriages runs across the bottom of the car spread, but there are no horses or carriages shown. Instead, the rather arbitrary instructions are to "spot three squirrels" and "count ten trees." An answer key on the final spread may allay the frustration of both child and adult readers. Animals, published simultaneously, uses a similar format with beasts from different biomes. The subtle differences will challenge the board-book set, so they are best studied with a helpful adult or older sibling. Older children may be put off by the board pages and will easily remember the answers. With its companion, a suitable introduction to the puzzles found in dentist-office magazines, with the same short-term appeal. (Board book. 2-4) Copyright Kirkus 2017 Kirkus/BPI Communications. All rights reserved.
Publishers Weekly Reviews
Eyewitness Expert: Dinosaur expands upon DK's earlier Dinosaur title in its Eyewitness series, which is packaged here along with a map a poster, CD of clip art, "profile cards" with dino stats, a cardboard model and more in a new deluxe edition. A new Expert Files hardcover is also included, which explores the lives of the researchers and scientists who study dinosaurs and their times. (DK, $29.99 72p ages 9-12 ISBN 9780-7566-3135-2; Oct.) Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information.