A New Take on Dinosaurs
I just got Uneversaurus
(by Aidan Potts) in the mail and popped it open to find myself staring at an inside cover full of something that could look like a pattern of "scales" in striated ribbons of color with matching names... like a giant painter's palette. Or, else, it looks like a prismatic "eye" done in the colors. I was struck that it was a palette - and amazing one. And then, we started reading. And, this is a beautifully done and fascinating book with a clear science edge. The focus: the "colors" of dinosaurs and that we don't know what colors they were. The book goes through all kinds of ways that scientists might try and deduce what colors a dinosaur was. But the fact remains, we don't know. The illustrations are fabulous. The science is thought-provoking and accessible and all-together wonderfully done. And, the back cover... why it's a very detailed full-spread dinosaur for YOU to color the way you imagine the dinosaur might look.
Posted by amyo at June 15, 2007 01:59 PM
