Pinocchio Rex and Other Tyrannosaurs (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 2)

My son loves T-Rex and enjoys learning about the other tyrannosaurs.

I'm very happy to see another book filled with art of the incredible Julius Csotonyi, this time focusing on not only Tyrannosaurus rex, but its lesser known but equally scientifically important relatives. The artwork is simply stunning and superb, and will definitely catch the eye of younger readers and adults alike. Anyone who isn't familiar with non-T.rex-tyrannosaurids should pick up this book to learn about their extended family tree. (And no, I don't just mean kids!)

The pictures are wonderful! Not too many words for kids that can't sit . Great book to read, look at, keep. I'm buying another for a gift.

My sons favorite book! Awesome pictures!

Like Stewart's other dino book ( https://www.amazon.com/review/RRMG7G6JUAPF7/ref=cm_cr_srp_d_rdp_perm?ie=UTF8 ), I really wanted to like "Pinocchio Rex and Other Tyrannosaurs" (henceforth Rex), especially given Csotonyi's paleoart. However, also like Stewart's other dino book, Rex is very bad (hence this review's title, which is what I thought when I 1st realized how bad Rex is).* In this review, I list the 3 main reasons why that is.1) You'd think the tyrannosaurs would be arranged in order of when they lived or when they were discovered (More on that below), but nope. They're just scattered all over with no apparent rhyme or reason.2) Not only does Rex avoid using the word "evolution", but it synonymizes "developed" with "evolved" (Google "Evolution: Library: Common Past, Different Paths").3) Rex fails to cover many tyrannosaur-related subjects & those that are covered are done so in an insufficient manner:** Sometimes, it simplifies things to the point of being meaningless (E.g. See the 1st Stewart quote, which describes ALL meat-eating dinos); Other times, it's just plain wrong (E.g. See the 2nd Stewart quote, the 1st half of which contradicts the 2nd half).Rex could've been a good natural history of tyrannosaurs, similar to Bakker's "The Big Golden Book of Dinosaurs", or a good history of tyrannosaur research, similar to Naish's "The Great Dinosaur Discoveries", for younger kids. Instead, Rex is basically just a well-illustrated pageant of tyrannosaurs, similar to "fossil exhibits...in the early days". To quote Ben (Google "Framing Fossil Exhibits, Part 1"), "people could marvel at the great size of the animals, but there was very little to be learned besides the names of the species in question."*If you don't get the reference, google "the list of Jericho".**This is especially apparent in the Kileskus section. Based on Brusatte's "The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World" (which I reviewed: https://www.amazon.com/review/R1H5PAIZYRT2B/ref=cm_cr_srp_d_rdp_perm?ie=UTF8 ), A LOT more could've been said about how Kileskus lived &/or how it was discovered.Quoting Stewart: "Tyrannosaurs...A group of meat-eating dinosaurs that walked on two legs."Quoting Stewart: "Dinosaurs...A group of animals that lived mostly on land between 230 and 66 million years ago. They walked upright and had big arm muscles. The birds alive today developed from dinosaurs."

Cool new book by Melissa Stewart and Steve Brusatte. Illustrated by Julius Csotonyi and published by Harper Kids.Showed me how little I knew about the T-Rex and how much I wanted to learn more.#NF #PB #TRex #dinosaurs #history #mustread