Dinosaurs A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House #1: Dinosaurs Before Dark

by Osborne, Mary Pope; Osborne, Will; Murdocca, Sal

• ISBN13: 9780375802966
• ISBN10: 0375802967
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-08-01
• Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

Summary

Who invented the word dinosaur? What was the name of the biggest dinosaur? This book includes everything you ever wanted to know about the real-life world of dinosaurs.

Author Biography

WILL OSBORNE and MARY POPE OSBORNE have been married for a number of years and live in northwestern Connecticut with their three dogs, Joey, Mr. Bezo, and Little Bear.

Mary is the author of over one hundred books for children, including novels, picture books, biographies, and retellings of fairy tales and world mythologies. Will has worked for many years in the theater as an actor, director, and playwright. Together he and Mary have coauthored two books of Greek mythology and eight Magic Tree House® Fact Trackers. Will has also written a multimedia planetarium show, Magic Tree House Space Mission, and is cocreator with Randy Courts of Magic Tree House: The Musical, a full-scale Broadway-style family musical based on Christmas in Camelot.

SAL MURDOCCA has illustrated more than 200 children's trade and text books. He is also a librettist for children'sopera, a video artist, an avid runner, hiker, and bicyclist, and a teacher of children's illustration at the Parsons School of Design. Sal lives and works in New York with his wife, Nancy.

Table of Contents

A World of Dinosaurs	13	(8)
Fossils	21	(8)
Dinosaur Hunters	29	(13)
Flesh-eaters	42	(21)
Plant-eaters	63	(21)
Sea Monsters and Flying Creatures	84	(9)
What Happened to the Dinosaurs?	93	(8)
Dinosaur Neighbors	101	(6)
Doing More Research	107	(9)
Index	116